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. -- http://alastairs-place.net _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
