Question

I am doing a Cocoa tutorial where I need to count the characters in a field, then output something like ‘the_string_i_am_count’ has 21 characters.

I have managed to get the string, count it, and output the count but I have no idea how to output the count along with the string and the other info.

How would I do this?

-(IBAction)countCharacters:(id)sender
{
    //i had to connect this to the class also to make it get the value.
    //NSString *string = [inputField stringValue];

    //get the number of chars
    NSUInteger length = [[inputField stringValue] length];

    [outputField setIntValue:length]; //string];
    //[outputField setStringValue: @"'s' has %d characters.", string, length];
}

Semi working code:

-(IBAction)countCharacters:(id)sender
{
    //i had to connect this to the class also to make it get the value.
    NSString *string = [inputField stringValue];

    //get the number of chars
    NSUInteger length = [[inputField stringValue] length];

    [outputField setStringValue:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"'%s' has %d characters.", string, length]];
}

Answer 1

[outputField setStringValue:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@ has %@ characters.", string, length]];