StringBuilder.append alternative

Question

Hi can someone suggest to me how I can refactor this code from using x.append and use only appened ( removing the x. every time). Thanks

StringBuilder x = new StringBuilder();
x.append("\n.O/");
x.append(fields.nextToken()); 
x.append("/");
x.append(fields.nextToken()); // Date
x.append("/");
x.append(fields.nextToken());
x.append("/Y");

Answer 1

It sounds like the specific code you're looking for is just

StringBuilder x = new StringBuilder();
x.append("\n.O/")
  .append(fields.nextToken())
  .append("/")
  .append(fields.nextToken()) // Date
  .append("/")
  .append(fields.nextToken())
  .append("/Y");

There are several other -- arguably better -- approaches to writing this code, but you specifically asked for chaining the append statements.