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iphoneobjective-cnsstring
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Reputation: 51911

How to concat a const char * to a NSString *

Trying to append const char *str to a NSSting *:

In .h

@interface SomeViewController : UIViewController
{
    NSString    *consoleText;
}

@property (nonatomic, retain) NSString *consoleText;

@end

In .mm 

@synthesize consoleText;

The following is OK:

const char *str = "abc";

self.consoleText = [NSString stringWithFormat: @"%@%@", self.consoleText, [NSString stringWithUTF8String:str]];

but the following failed:

self.consoleText = [self.consoleText stringByAppendingString:[NSString stringWithUTF8String:str]];

Why stringByAppendingString fails but stringWithFormat works? Thanks!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3375

Answers (2)

Kevin Sylvestre
Kevin Sylvestre

Reputation: 38012

NSString *original = @"Thinking";
const char *str = "...";
NSString *other = [NSString stringWithCString:str encoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding];
original = [original stringByAppendingString:other];
NSLog(@"original: %@", original); // original: Thinking...

Upvotes: 1

Girish Kolari
Girish Kolari

Reputation: 2515

In two of the operations you are doing different things one is appending existing string and another you are setting a new string

To append string there should be a string object

self.consoleText = [self.consoleText stringByAppendingString:[NSString stringWithUTF8String:str]];

As per understanding self.consoleText ---> nil so it will not appending string.

so do something like

if(self.consoleText)
{
    self.consoleText = [self.consoleText stringByAppendingString:[NSString stringWithUTF8String:str]];

}else
{
self.consoleText = [NSString stringWithUTF8String:str];
}

Upvotes: 1

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