Dynamically evaluating templated Strings in Kotlin

Question

Suppose that I have the following piece of Kotlin code:

fun main(args: Array) {
    val a = \"test\"
    println(args.first())
}

Answer 1

Is there some way to evaluate Strings that aren't in the source code with regards to templates in their current context?

There are no template strings in your code sample and a is unused. Am I understanding correctly that you'd like to do something like val evaluated = evalStringTemplate(template, arg1, arg2, ...) with template being a String like "$a" and arg1, arg2, ... being arguments for the template?

If so, there's no Kotlin-specific way to do this, but you can use the Java Formatter class.