Question

- (NSString *)localizedStringForKey:(NSString *)key 
                              value:(NSString *)value 
                              table:(NSString *)tableName

Doc says about the tableName argument in the above method as: The receiver’s string table to search. If tableName is nil or is an empty string, the method attempts to use the table in Localizable.strings…

My question is if we create a Localizable.strings it creates a string file alone. No tables are created in our project. Where is the table actually? Is it possible to create such string tables manually? I have a need to do that in my project…

And my final question is – What value I have pass as the argument to the tableName parameter?

Thank you…

Answer 1

In that context, “table” refers to the file of translations. So for Localizable.strings, you can get translations from it with NSLocalizedStringFromTable(@”foo”, @”Localizable”, @”comment”). Localizable.strings is the default, however, so you’d typically just use NSLocalizedString(@”foo”, @”comment”). If you add a new translation file (say, Settings.strings), then you’d have use the table name to refer to it.