Question

So I have an array that is filled in by parsing an XML file. In the file, there are lines that contain ‘\n’ for a next-line character.

When I try to display said lines

self.myTextView.text = _myString;

it displays in the simulator as

\nLorem \nipsum \ndolor \nsit \namet ....

(It prints the same way through console – However, if I manually set

self.myTextView.text = @"\nLorem \nipsum \ndolor \nsit \namet";

it will display as

Lorem
ipsum
dolor
sit
amet

Does anyone know how to work around this problem? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Your input string literally contains the characters \n which have no special meaning outside of a C-compiler (or Java, or C++ or Objective-C, etc.).

If you want the \n characters converted to newlines then you need to do this yourself, perhaps using:

self.myTextView.text = [_myString stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"\\n"
                                                            withString:@"\n"];