Question

Are there any shortcuts to (stringByAppendingString:) string concatenation in Objective-C, or shortcuts for working with NSString in general?

For example, I’d like to make:

NSString *myString = @'This'; NSString *test = [myString stringByAppendingString:@' is just a test']; 

something more like:

string myString = 'This'; string test = myString + ' is just a test'; 

Answer 1

Two answers I can think of… neither is particularly as pleasant as just having a concatenation operator.

First, use an NSMutableString, which has an appendString method, removing some of the need for extra temp strings.

Second, use an NSArray to concatenate via the componentsJoinedByString method.