Re: printf with "%@"

FROM : Dirk Stegemann
DATE : Fri Aug 11 18:47:39 2006

Hi,

Am 11.08.2006 um 19:26 schrieb Roland Silver:

> That takes care of the example I gave, but not the general case 
> where one wants a format that includes "%@".


As far as I know, when passing an object reference to NSLog, it 
retrieves the NSString to be printed by sending the "description" 
message to that object.

So, 1) replacing "NSLog" by "printf", 2) replacing "%@" by "%s" and 
3) passing the const char* obtained through sending 
"cStringUsingEncoding:" (or "UTF8String:" as Greg pointed out) to the 
description NSString of the object in question should simulate 
NSLog's behaviour pretty well.

What am I missing here? Can you give an example where those 
replacements wouldn't fit your needs?


Best regards,
Dirk Stegemann