setTemplateSymbol

You can change that symbol by any other you wish with the help of this method. It is, of course, convenient to use a symbol reasonably distinguishable from standard text characters.

Make sure that all variables in your template are surrounded by the symbol you have chosen.

Parameters

templateSymbol

The symbol you want to use for identifying placeholder variables within templates.

Code samples

Example #1

package examples.Templates.setTemplateSymbol;

import java.util.HashMap;

import com.javadocx.CreateDocxFromTemplate;

public class Sample1 {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        CreateDocxFromTemplate docx = new CreateDocxFromTemplate("src/examples/files/TemplatePipeSymbol.docx");
        
        docx.setTemplateSymbol("|");
        
        HashMap<String, String> variables = new HashMap<String, String>();
        variables.put("FIRST", "Hello World!");
        
        docx.replaceVariableByText(variables);
        
        docx.createDocx("example_setTemplateSymbol_1");
    }
}

The resulting Word document looks like: