On Feb 13, 2012, at 11:04 AM, Chris Paveglio wrote: > I'm having an issue with the percent character being displayed as random > numbers in an NSAlertPanel (modal). My app has an ivar, "fullString", > including the usual property/synthesize getters and setters, there is nothing > special about it. fullString is bound to an NSTextField where a user might > type "10% off all shoes", or put some text that contains dollar signs or > percent signs. Later another method will validate if it's a web address or > plain text and display an alert if it's not a web address. At this point I > use the usual -stringWithFormat and put the "fullString" text in with some > other descriptive text. But if fullString contains a percent character, then > the NSAlert displays something like "10254458745ff all shoes". Why is the > percent character being turned into some numbers, and it also seems to lop > off the space and letter o as well? Using ampersand, dollar sign, and number > symbol all display properly. > FWIW, I am using objective-C++, because my QR code library project is C++ and > I need to compile it all the same (first time I've had to do anything like > this). Would that be somehow mangling my string in the NSAlert display? If I > do NSLog on the string displayed in the NSAlert it also logs properly. So why > the discrepancy in the Alert?
You did not provide a code snippet showing how the string is used, but you mentioned using -[NSString stringWithFormat:]. My guess would be that fullString is being interpreted somewhere as a format string, where the % is interpreted as a format directive/specifier. %o is unsigned 32-bit integer (unsigned int), printed in octal, which matches what you're reporting as the results. If so, rewrite your code so fullString is not interpreted as a format string when composing your message/output. _______________________________________________ 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: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
