Casting int to NSString.

• Laurie Fleming

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  Posted: 16 February 2002 02:38 PM

  This should be *really* obvious, but it ain’t to me.

  I have a popUpButton with years from 1990 to a wee way ahead. I want to populate each row with the year description and found this was the easiest way for me to do it. But it can’t be the best. Or easiest.

  // Populate the year button until two years in the future.
    for (i = 1990; i < [now yearOfCommonEra] + 4; i++)
    {
    // There should be, and probably is, a straight-forward casting method for
    // integer->char...
    [yearButton addItemWithTitle:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%i", i]];
    [[yearButton lastItem] setTag:i];
    } 

  How change I implement the addItemWithTitle without going through the indirect stringWithFormat cast? I suppose I could slip atoi() in there, but is there an Objective-C way of going about it? I know exactly how to do it in SAS/AF Frame, but there’s no such beast under OS X.

  I’m learning all the time…

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  Posted: 16 February 2002 02:31 PM #1

  I thought NSString had a method to do just that.  no?

  huh, nothing here
  http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/ObjC_classic/Classes/NSString.html

  as you said, you could always atoi, then initwithCstring

  [edit] does string with format do it?

  
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  Posted: 16 February 2002 02:38 PM #2

  silly me, I just read you post a little more clearly… It looks like stringwithformat is the way to go.  maybe someone else has a better idea? 

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