Multi-line strings in objective-c localized strings file
Just use the new lines directly.
"email" = "Hello %@,
Check out %@.
Sincerely,
%@";
Christopher Pickslay
Agile iOS and web application developer in the SF Bay Area, creator of iKu, a social haiku app (http://iku-app.com). I also built Verbally, an assistive iPad app for people who've lost the ability to speak (http://verballyapp.com). Follow me on twitter at @cpickslay.
Updated on July 10, 2022Comments
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Christopher Pickslay almost 2 years
I have a template for an email that I've put in a localized strings file, and I'm loading the string with the
NSLocalizedString
macro.I'd rather not make each line its own string with a unique key. In Objective-C, I can create a human-readable multiline string like so:
NSString *email = @"Hello %@,\n" "\n" "Check out %@.\n" "\n" "Sincerely,\n" "\n" "%@";
I tried to put that in a .strings file with:
"email" = "Hello %@,\n" "\n" "Check out %@.\n" "\n" "Sincerely,\n" "\n" "%@";
But I get the following error at build time:
CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary. email-template.strings: Unexpected character " at line 1 Command /Developer/Library/Xcode/Plug-ins/CoreBuildTasks.xcplugin/Contents/Resources/copystrings failed with exit code 1
I can concatenate it all together like this:
"email" = "Hello %@,\n\nCheck out %@.\n\nSincerely,\n\n%@";
But that will be a mess to maintain, particularly as the email gets longer.
Is there a way to do this in a localized strings file? I've already tried adding backslashes at the end of each line, to no avail.