NSString with \n or line break

Question

Does anyone know how to use line breaks in NSString? I need to do something like this -

[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@,\n%@", mystring1,mystring2];

Answer 1

I just ran into the same issue when overloading -description for a subclass of NSObject. In this situation I was able to use carriage return (\r) instead of newline (\n) to create a line break.

[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@\r%@", mystring1,mystring2];

Answer 2

If your string is going in a UIView (e.g a UILabel), you also need to set the number of lines to 0

myView.numberOfLines=0;

Answer 3

I found that when I was reading strings in from a .plist file, occurrences of "\n" were parsed as "\\n". The solution for me was to replace occurrences of "\\n" with "\n". For example, given an instance of NSString named myString read in from my .plist file, I had to call...

myString = [myString stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"\\n" withString:@"\n"];

... before assigning it to my UILabel instance...

myLabel.text = myString;

Answer 4

NSString *str1 = @"Share Role Play Photo via Facebook, or Twitter for free coins per photo.";
NSString *str2 = @"Like Role Play on facebook for 50 free coins.";
NSString *str3 = @"Check out 'What's Hot' on other ways to receive free coins";


NSString *msg = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@\n%@\n%@", str1, str2, str3];