Adding a "%" in a label without triggering incomplete format specifier

Question

I am making an application that uses a progress bar.I would like to display the percentage of completion, but inserting a "%" will interfere with the number that will be displayed.

This is what I have

[percentage setText:[NSString stringWithFormat: @"Progress: %.0f", progressBar.progress*100]];

& I would like to insert the "%" at the end of the string. Thanks for your help.

possible duplicate of [How to add percent sign to NSString](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/739682/how-to-add-percent-sign-to-nsstring) — Mike Mertsock, May 28 '14 at 17:18

score 11 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 04 '14 at 01:32

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Just escape the percent %%:

[percentage setText:
    [NSString stringWithFormat: @"Progress: %.0f%%", progressBar.progress*100]];

answered Jan 04 '14 at 01:32

meda

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score 3 · Answer 2 · edited Jan 04 '14 at 01:47

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%% will give you the percent symbol in your string.

edited Jan 04 '14 at 01:47

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answered Jan 04 '14 at 01:33

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Adding a "%" in a label without triggering incomplete format specifier

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