I'm using NSLog() to print some tabular data consisting of an NSString and an associated integer.
Assume I know the length of the longest word.
Is there a way using format strings to get this kind of column alignment:
word:tree rank:5 word:frog rank:3 word:house rank:2 word:peppercorn rank:2 word:sword rank:2 word:antlion rank:1
The reason I'm asking about formatting strings is I'm hoping for a lightweight way to format my ghetto debugging output.
Here is what I tried:
NSString *word = @"tree";
NSUInteger rank = 4;
NSString *str = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"word:%-20@ rank:%u", word, rank];
NSLog(@"%@", str);
Result:
word:tree rank:4
No effect at all.