Objective C General Print

Question

Does objective C have a general print command like Python? NSLog seems to log it rather than print out to console. printf only accepts specific types.

Answer 1

NSLog() does print to the console, and is very similar to C's printf(). Having its origins and basis in C, console printing is done as it is in C, essentially.

Answer 2

printf is what you're looking for. You can use it like a regular print statement:

printf("This is a neat command!\n");

You're also probably aware that you can use it with substitutions:

printf("The Answer is %d\n", 42);

Answer 3

You can use NSString to format strings containing id types as well as the standard printf types, then just print it using printf:

NSString *fmt = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"My formatted string: %@", anObject];

printf("%s", [fmt cStringUsingEncoding:[NSString defaultCStringEncoding]]);