I'm trying to format a string to give me 2 characters for a number, no matter what its value. Right now, I have
[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%2d:%2d:%2d",h,m,s)];
and for the values 1, 2, 3, the output is
1: 2: 3
How do I change the spaces to 0's ?
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I am new to Objective C and the iPhone SDK, and am trying to figure out the following as a simple example of displaying a numeric result in a label area:
label.text = [NSString stringWithFormat: @"%d", 55];
This code above displays the number "55" in the label area. However, the following code results in the display of "0" (with calcu...
Is it possible to display 1000.99 as 1,000.99 using
[NSString stringWithFormat:@"£%0.2f", 1000.99]
Please guide me if I am not on the right track to achieve this?
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To open Google Maps with directions, i'm using a formatted NSString inside a NSURL. But it doesn't work with [[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:nsurl];
code:
NSString * directionsURL = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"http://maps.google.com/maps?daddr=%@&saddr=%@", @"Hartenseweg 16, Renkum", @"1 Infinte Loop, Cupertino"];
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Hello,
I'm having a problem with a cocoa application that takes the value of a text field, and writes it to a file. The file path is made using stringWithFormat: to combine 2 strings. For some reason it will not create the file and the console says nothing. Here is my code:
//Get the values of the text field
NSString *fileName = [fileN...
I'm trying to learn the MapKit with Monotouch and I'm having difficulty figuring out how to search for an address. I finally found this snippet of Objective-C code that might help but it has a line where they use a URL to get a return value and I have no idea how to use this code in C#:
NSString *urlString = [NSString stringWithFormat:...
I am trying to have a label display single-digit numbers as double-digit numbers (ie. 1 => 01) . I may be using the wrong method to set the value for the label but the thing is I'm not even sure about that after pouring over Apple's documentation and scouring the internet.
[secondsLabel setValue:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%2d", secon...
Hi Guys,
I don't know what I am missing here. I am trying to concatenate strings using NSString stringWithFormat function. This is what I am doing.
NSString *category = [row objectForKey:@"category"];
NSString *logonUser = [row objectForKey:@"username"];
user.text = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"In %@ by %@", category, logonUser];
The...
Hi, I think this is a relatively simple question, but I don't precisely know what's happening.
I have a method that tries to build a string using NSString's stringWithFormat
It looks like this:
NSString *line1 = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"the car is %d miles away", self.ma];
In the above line "self.ma" should be an int, but in my ...
Based on this SO question asked a few hours ago, I have decided to implement a swizzled method that will allow me to take a formatted NSString as the format arg into stringWithFormat, and have it not break when omitting one of the numbered arg references (%1$@, %2$@)
I have it working, but this is the first copy, and seeing as this meth...
Hi Guys,
I want to append the string into single varilable using stringWithFormat.I knew it in using stringByAppendingString. Please help me to append using stringWithFormat for the below code.
NSString* curl = @"https://invoices?ticket=";
curl = [curl stringByAppendingString:self.ticket];
curl = [curl stringByAppendingString:@"&apikey...
Using objective-c on the iPhone, what is wrong with this code?
Is it leaking memory? Why?
How would I do this correctly?
NSMutableString *result = [NSMutableString stringWithFormat:@"the value is %d", i];
... then later in my code... I might need to change this to:
result = [NSMutableString stringWithFormat:@"the value is now %d", i...
I am have created a timer where I convert the remaining time to a string with a format of:"mm:ss" and when the string value of the time is 00:00 I would like to invalidate the timer. For some reason it doesn't work, even when I log the remaining time I see the the value has the correct format so I don't know why my "if" branch in "countT...