Shortcuts in Objective-C to concatenate NSStrings

Question

Are there any shortcuts to (stringByAppendingString:) string concatenation in Objective-C, or shortcuts for working with NSString in general?

Answer 1

You can use NSArray as

NSString *string1=@"This"

NSString *string2=@"is just"

NSString *string3=@"a test"  

NSArray *myStrings = [[NSArray alloc] initWithObjects:string1, string2, string3,nil];

NSString *fullLengthString = [myStrings componentsJoinedByString:@" "];

or

you can use

NSString *imageFullName=[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@ %@ %@.", string1,string2,string3];

Answer 2

The only way to make c = [a stringByAppendingString: b] any shorter is to use autocomplete at around the st point. The + operator is part of C, which doesn't know about Objective-C objects.

Answer 3

An option:

[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@/%@/%@", one, two, three];

Another option:

I'm guessing you're not happy with multiple appends (a+b+c+d), in which case you could do:

NSLog(@"%@", [Util append:one, @" ", two, nil]); // "one two"
NSLog(@"%@", [Util append:three, @"/", two, @"/", one, nil]); // three/two/one

using something like

+ (NSString *) append:(id) first, ...
{
    NSString * result = @"";
    id eachArg;
    va_list alist;
    if(first)
    {
        result = [result stringByAppendingString:first];
        va_start(alist, first);
        while (eachArg = va_arg(alist, id)) 
        result = [result stringByAppendingString:eachArg];
        va_end(alist);
    }
    return result;
}

Answer 4

Create a method:

- (NSString *)strCat: (NSString *)one: (NSString *)two
{
    NSString *myString;
    myString = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@%@", one , two];
    return myString;
}

Then, in whatever function you need it in, set your string or text field or whatever to the return value of this function.

Or, to make a shortcut, convert the NSString into a C++ string and use the '+' there.

Answer 5

Either of these formats work in XCode7 when I tested:

NSString *sTest1 = {@"This" " and that" " and one more"};
NSString *sTest2 = {
  @"This"
  " and that"
  " and one more"
};

NSLog(@"\n%@\n\n%@",sTest1,sTest2);

For some reason, you only need the @ operator character on the first string of the mix.

However, it doesn't work with variable insertion. For that, you can use this extremely simple solution with the exception of using a macro on "cat" instead of "and".

Answer 6

NSString *label1 = @"Process Name: ";
NSString *label2 = @"Process Id: ";
NSString *processName = [[NSProcessInfo processInfo] processName];
NSString *processID = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%d", [[NSProcessInfo processInfo] processIdentifier]];
NSString *testConcat = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@ %@ %@ %@", label1, processName, label2, processID];