How do I add multiple strings to a string ? Whats the easiest way to do that ? If I don't want to create a new line of code every time I add something to a string, I'd like to do something like that :
NSString *recipeTitle = [@"<h5>Recipe name: " stringByAppendingFormat:recipe.name, @"</h5>"];
NSLog(@"%@", recipeTitle);
// This shows: <h5>Recipe name: myrecipe
// Where's the </h5> closing that header ? It will only show up with the next line of code
recipeTitle = [recipeTitle stringByAppendingFormat:@"</h5>"];
//my problem is that will result in more than 1k lines of programming
Do I have to necessarily add a new line appending the appended every time ? Is there a faster/more productive way to do that ?
I'm trying to compose the email body with my tableview in it and that will result in a huge set of programming lines. Isthere anybody that could give me any hint or anything better than composing a huuuge string just so i can populate my email body with a table containing my tableview data ?
Any help to make this more productive is appreciated. Thanks ! Carlos Farini.
// After working on it a bit i got:
-(IBAction)sendmail{
MFMailComposeViewController *composer = [[MFMailComposeViewController alloc] init];
[composer setMailComposeDelegate:self];
NSString *recipeTitle = @"<h5>Recipe name: ";
recipeTitle = [recipeTitle stringByAppendingFormat:recipe.name];
recipeTitle = [recipeTitle stringByAppendingFormat:@"</h5>"];
NSString *ingredientAmount = @"";
NSString *ingredientAisle = @"";
NSString *ingredientTitle = @"";
NSString *tableFirstLine = @"<table width='90%' border='1'><tr><td>Ingredient</td><td>Amount</td><td>Aisle</td></tr>";
NSString *increments = @"";
int i=0;
for (i=0; i < [ingredients count]; i++) {
Ingredient *ingredient = [ingredients objectAtIndex:i];
ingredientTitle = ingredient.name;
ingredientAmount = ingredient.amount;
ingredientAisle = ingredient.aisle;
increments = [increments stringByAppendingFormat:recipeTitle];
increments = [tableFirstLine stringByAppendingFormat:@"<tr><td>"];
increments = [increments stringByAppendingFormat:ingredientTitle];
increments = [increments stringByAppendingFormat:@"</td><td>"];
increments = [increments stringByAppendingFormat:ingredientAmount];
increments = [increments stringByAppendingFormat:@"</td><td>"];
increments = [increments stringByAppendingFormat:ingredientAisle];
increments = [increments stringByAppendingFormat:@"</td></tr>"];
if (i == ([ingredients count]-1)) {
//IF THIS IS THE LAST INGREDIENT, CLOSE THE TABLE
increments = [increments stringByAppendingFormat:@"</table>"];
}
}
NSLog(@"CODE:: %@", increments);
if ([MFMailComposeViewController canSendMail]) {
[composer setToRecipients:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"[email protected]", nil]];
[composer setSubject:@"subject here"];
[composer setMessageBody:increments isHTML:YES];
[composer setModalTransitionStyle:UIModalTransitionStyleFlipHorizontal];
[self presentModalViewController:composer animated:YES];
[composer release];
}else {
[composer release];
}
}
But then again, it's showing just one row in the table. What am I doing wrong here ?
How about something like this:
NSString *recipeTitle = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"<h5>Recipe name: %@ </h5>", recipe.name];