Question

Why does this:

 Profile *showProfile = [[Profile alloc] init];

    showProfile = [profileArray objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];

    if([[showProfile lastName] length] > 0){
       NSString *cellValue = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@ %@", [showProfile lastName], [showProfile firstName]];
       [[cell textLabel] setText:cellValue];

    }

Show the text on the UITableViewCell not on the left side. I can’t post an image to show you, but this is killing me. The text seems to be more centered.

But if I do this:

Profile *showProfile = [[Profile alloc] init];

        showProfile = [profileArray objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];

        if([[showProfile lastName] length] > 0){
           NSString *cellValue = @"This is aligned properly";
           [[cell textLabel] setText:cellValue];

        }

The text is fine.

Answer 1

Are you sure that your lastname doesn’t have any whitespaces in front of it? Try trimming the string like this:

[[cell textLabel] setText:[cellValue stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet:[NSCharacterSet whitespaceAndNewlineCharacterSet]]];

Also note that you currently allocate a Profile object that is never used! Instead of:

Profile *showProfile = [[Profile alloc] init];
showProfile = [profileArray objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];

simply use this:

Profile *showProfile = [profileArray objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];

Otherwise you always first create a new profile object you never use, which takes time.