On 7 May 2010, at 21:16, Sean McBride wrote:
> Also, you should never use sprintf. Use snprintf instead.
snprintf() is safer, certainly, but "never" is a little strong for my taste. Like goto or longjmp(), it depends who is using it and what for.
*Anyway*, this is cocoa-dev, and that being the case, this entire question is off-topic. So to bring it back *on* topic, a better alternative would be to use NSString's -stringWithFormat: method, which is safer than sprintf() or snprintf(), and means you get an NSString object which is a much richer type than a plain C string. -stringWithFormat: also supports pretty much the same set of specifiers that printf() does, with the addition of %@, of course.
Oh, and there's also NSNumberFormatter if you want to format numbers in a more sophisticated manner.
Kind regards,
Alastair.
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