I have a UILabel instance, say mylabel.
What i want to do is like this:
mylabel.text = @"Age\tLimit\tYear";
instead of
mylabel.text = @"Age Limit Year";
But when i tried, \t is not recognized. How to achieve it?
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Use three labels with the proper spacing. – rmaddy Jan 09 '13 at 06:48
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pass the text with the spaces u want between two words. – Girish Jan 09 '13 at 06:59
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Can you try: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5386351/objective-c-code-to-right-pad-a-nsstring – Yunus Nedim Mehel Jan 09 '13 at 08:39
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You can also format string first
NSString *formattedString = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"Age%8s%8s",[@"Limit" UTF8String], [@"Year" UTF8String]];
mylabel.text = formattedString;
Unfortunately, %@ formatter doesn't add spaces to adjust field width. So I use UTF8String with %s specifier to adjust width.
Note: Width specifies a minimum number of characters to output, and is typically used to pad fixed-width fields in tabulated output, where the fields would otherwise be smaller, although it does not cause truncation of oversized fields.
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Add one more backslash to it so it will be like this.
mylabel.text = @"Age\\tLimit\\tYear";
That way it won't be parsed as tab which is represented as "\t".
Here you have some more info: How do I escape special characters in an NSString using RegexKitLite? And here as well: how to write special character in objective-C NSString
