How to concatenate TextView.text

Question

I have two UITextViews:

self.itemsTextView.text;
self.priceTextView.text;

I want to concatenate these two like so:

NSString *data = self.textView.text + self.itemsTextView.text;

I have tried using a colon, as suggested by this thread, but it doesn't work.

NSString *data = [self.textView.text : self.itemsTextView.text];

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 08 '13 at 17:03

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For concatenating you have several options :

Using stringWithFormat:

NSString *dataString =[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@%@",self.textView.text, self.itemsTextView.text];

Using stringByAppendingString:

NSMutableString has appendString:

answered Mar 08 '13 at 17:03

Anoop Vaidya

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%@ is place holder for one object. As %d is for one integer. – Anoop Vaidya Mar 08 '13 at 17:08
Those are literals. %@ is an object literal. – CodaFi Mar 08 '13 at 17:08
@BasilSiddiqui Read the docs for the `NSString stringWithFormat:` method. It will tell you all you need to know about format specifiers. – rmaddy Mar 08 '13 at 17:10

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 08 '13 at 17:03

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You may use

NSString * data = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@%@",self.textView.text,self.itemsTextView.text];

answered Mar 08 '13 at 17:03

Shashank

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 08 '13 at 17:09

There are so many ways to do this. In addition to the stringWithFormat: approaches of the other answers you can do (where a and b are other strings):

NSString *c = [a stringByAppendingString:b];

or

NSMutableString *c = [a mutableCopy];
[c appendString b];

How to concatenate TextView.text

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