How to find untranslated strings. NSLocalizedString()

Question

I'm using NSLocalizedString() for all localization stuff. The project is very big. We support many languages. Is there a way that I can easily extract strings that are not in the Localizable.strings but were wrapped with NSLocalizedString.

Example. Let's say I have somewhere in my code:

NSString *message = NSLocalizedString(@"Sample message");

But developer forgot to put this string in Localizable.strings files, so it won't be translated. Is there a way to extract untranslated strings from the source code?

Also, I don't want to use genstrings tool. I already have a very big NSLocalizable.strings files. genstrings tool generates a new one with all strings wrapped with NSLocalizedString removing all former translations, which I do not want. I just want to extract untranslated strings and NOT ALL the strings marked with NSLocalizedString().

Thanks, Rafal

Answer 1

Check out the genstrings tool, that does exactly this.

EDIT: Try merging the genstrings generatet strings file with your existing one using the FileMerge tool in XCode (XCode > Open Developer Tool).