Re: where is the basic NSString literal escape documentation?
Re: where is the basic NSString literal escape documentation?
- Subject: Re: where is the basic NSString literal escape documentation?
- From: Aki Inoue <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 18:17:58 -0700
\uxxxx and \UXXXXXXXX formats (or universal character names ) are part of C99 standard.
Aki
On Apr 19, 2010, at 6:11 PM, Matt Neuburg wrote:
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> On Apr 19, 2010, at 6:02 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote:
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>> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Matt Neuburg <email@hidden> wrote:
>>> Supposing you were a complete C / Objective-C beginner. How would you find
>>> out what escape sequences are permitted in an NSString literal (that is,
>>> with @"...")? For example, K&R doesn't know about \uNNNN (backslash-u
>>> followed by four hex digits), but of course that is now legal (though it was
>>> not always). What documentation would tell the user about this? Thx - m.
>>
>> I use the printf(3) manpage.
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> That's good on format-strings and stuff you can do with %, but that isn't what I'm asking about. I'm asking about straightforward NSString literals, such as @"this\nsort\tof\u2022thing". You can learn about the \n and \t from K&R, but how would you learn about \u2022?_______________________________________________
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