Basic Objective-C syntax: “%@”?

Question

I\'m working through the Stanford iPhone podcasts and have some basic questions.

The first: why is there no easy string concatenation? (or am I just missing it?)

Answer 1

That is a string format specifier. Basically it allows you to specify a placeholder in the string and the values that are to be inserted into the placeholder's spot. The link I reference above lists the different notations for the placeholders and each placeholder's specific format.

It's just like C#'s String.Format method:

NSLog(String.Format("My home folder is at '{0}'", absolutePath));