Punctuation and return (statements?) in text field?

Question

This is really difficult to describe as I don't know what the proper term is here, but I have written a simple self.textfield.text=@"text" line, but **

how can I use punctuation like double-quotes (") without Xcode thinking its actual code rather than text

** (I think I have an idea but I don't know the syntax).

And **

is it also possible to add returns or enters when setting text like this?

I am a Java programmer and can do this in that language, but I'm new to app development! Any Demo/Example will be very much helpful for me.

** Thanks for the help,

self.textfield.text=@"text\""; just escape them. – Yogesh Suthar Jan 18 '14 at 03:53 — Yogesh Suthar, Jan 18 '14 at 03:53

danh · Answer 1 · 2014-01-18T04:09:55.590

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The way to do it is to add escape characters:

NSString *string = @"This is a quote: \"To err is human\"";
NSString *string = @"This is a tab:\tTo err is human";
NSString *string = @"This is a newline:\n"To err is human\"";

edited Jan 18 '14 at 04:09

answered Jan 18 '14 at 03:53

danh

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...and you can escape newlines with `\n`: `@"This is a \"line\".\nThis is another \"line\"."` – atticus Jan 18 '14 at 03:58

Punctuation and return (statements?) in text field?

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