Shortcuts in Objective-C to concatenate NSStrings

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Are there any shortcuts to  stringByAppendingString   string concatenation in Objective-C  or shortcuts for working with NSString in general   For example  I d like to make   NSString  myString     This   NSString  test    myString stringByAppendingString    is just a test      something more like   string myString    This   string test   myString     is just a test

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Let s imagine that u don t know how many strings there   NSMutableArray  arrForStrings     NSMutableArray alloc  init   for  int i 0  i lt  allMyStrings count   i          NSString  str    allMyStrings objectAtIndex i        arrForStrings addObject str     NSString  readyString     arrForStrings mutableCopy  componentsJoinedByString

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Macro      stringConcat             A shortcut for concatenating strings  or objects  string representations          Input  Any number of non-nil NSObjects         Output  All arguments concatenated together into a single NSString    define stringConcat                 VA ARGS    componentsJoinedByString        Test Cases   -  void testStringConcat       NSString  actual       actual   stringConcat      might not make sense  but it s still a valid expression      STAssertEqualObjects      actual    stringConcat         actual   stringConcat   A        STAssertEqualObjects   A   actual    stringConcat         actual   stringConcat   A     B        STAssertEqualObjects   AB   actual    stringConcat         actual   stringConcat   A     B     C        STAssertEqualObjects   ABC   actual    stringConcat            works on all NSObjects  not just strings       actual   stringConcat  1         2         3       STAssertEqualObjects   1 2 3   actual    stringConcat          Alternate macro   if you wanted to enforce a minimum number of arguments      stringConcat             A shortcut for concatenating strings  or objects  string representations          Input  Two or more non-nil NSObjects         Output  All arguments concatenated together into a single NSString    define stringConcat str1  str2                 str1  str2      VA ARGS    componentsJoinedByString

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Try stringWithFormat   NSString  myString    NSString stringWithFormat             d    The    Answer    Is   42

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Let s imagine that u don t know how many strings there   NSMutableArray  arrForStrings     NSMutableArray alloc  init   for  int i 0  i lt  allMyStrings count   i          NSString  str    allMyStrings objectAtIndex i        arrForStrings addObject str     NSString  readyString     arrForStrings mutableCopy  componentsJoinedByString

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Here s a simple way  using the new array literal syntax   NSString   s        one      two      three   componentsJoinedByString                                 create array                                                              concatenate

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If you have 2 NSString literals  you can also just do this   NSString  joinedFromLiterals     ONE     MILLION     YEARS     DUNGEON        That s also useful for joining  defines    define STRINGA   Also  I don t know    define STRINGB   where food comes from    define JOINED STRINGA STRINGB   Enjoy

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For all Objective C lovers that need this in a UI-Test   - void  clearTextField  XCUIElement   textField       NSString  currentInput    NSString   textField value      NSMutableString  deleteString    NSMutableString new        for int i   0  i  lt  currentInput length    i             deleteString appendString   NSString stringWithFormat    c   8               textField typeText deleteString

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NSString  result  NSString stringWithFormat             Hello     World

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You can use NSArray as  NSString  string1   This   NSString  string2   is just   NSString  string3   a test     NSArray  myStrings     NSArray alloc  initWithObjects string1  string2  string3 nil    NSString  fullLengthString    myStrings componentsJoinedByString          or  you can use   NSString  imageFullName  NSString stringWithFormat               string1 string2 string3

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How about shortening stringByAppendingString and use a  define    define and stringByAppendingString   Thus you would use   NSString  myString      Hello   and   world      Problem is that it only works for two strings  you re required to wrap additional brackets for more appends   NSString  myString       Hello  and     world   and     again

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Two answers I can think of    neither is particularly as pleasant as just having a concatenation operator   First  use an NSMutableString  which has an appendString method  removing some of the need for extra temp strings   Second  use an NSArray to concatenate via the componentsJoinedByString method

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NSNumber  lat    NSNumber numberWithDouble destinationMapView camera target latitude   NSNumber  lon    NSNumber numberWithDouble destinationMapView camera target longitude   NSString  DesconCatenated    NSString stringWithFormat          lat lon

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Was trying the following in the lldb pane    NSString stringWithFormat              three  two  one     which errors   instead use alloc and initWithFormat method     NSString alloc  initWithFormat                three     two     one

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When building requests for web services  I find doing something like the following is very easy and makes concatenation readable in Xcode   NSString  postBody            lt  xml version   1 0   encoding   utf-8    gt          lt soap Envelope xmlns xsi   http   www w3 org 2001 XMLSchema-instance   xmlns xsd   http   www w3 org 2001 XMLSchema   xmlns soap   http   schemas xmlsoap org soap envelope    gt           lt soap Body gt            lt WebServiceMethod xmlns      gt             lt parameter gt test lt  parameter gt            lt  WebServiceMethod gt           lt  soap Body gt          lt  soap Envelope gt

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Shortcut by creating AppendString  AS  macro        define AS A B       A  stringByAppendingString  B   NSString  myString     This    NSString  test   AS myString    is just a test      Note   If using a macro  of course just do it with variadic arguments  see EthanB s answer

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Use stringByAppendingString  this way   NSString  string1   string2   result   string1     This is    string2     my string     result    result stringByAppendingString string1   result    result stringByAppendingString string2     OR  result    result stringByAppendingString   This is     result    result stringByAppendingString   my string

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Try stringWithFormat   NSString  myString    NSString stringWithFormat             d    The    Answer    Is   42

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Well  as colon is kind of special symbol  but is part of method signature  it is possible to exted the NSString with category to add this non-idiomatic style of string concatenation      This       feels       almost like       concatenation with operators      You can define as many colon separated arguments as you find useful     -   For a good measure  I ve also added concat  with variable arguments that takes nil terminated list of strings        NSString Concatenation h   import  lt Foundation Foundation h gt    interface NSString  Concatenation   -  NSString     NSString   a  -  NSString     NSString   a   NSString   b  -  NSString     NSString   a   NSString   b   NSString   c  -  NSString     NSString   a   NSString   b   NSString   c   NSString   d   -  NSString   concat  NSString   strings         end      NSString Concatenation m   import  NSString Concatenation h    implementation NSString  Concatenation   -  NSString     NSString   a   return  self stringByAppendingString a    -  NSString     NSString   a   NSString   b   return   self a  b    -  NSString     NSString   a   NSString   b   NSString   c       return    self a  b  c     -  NSString     NSString   a   NSString   b   NSString   c   NSString   d       return     self a  b  c  d     -  NSString   concat  NSString   strings            va list args      va start args  strings        NSString  s          NSString  con    self stringByAppendingString strings        while  s   va arg args  NSString               con    con stringByAppendingString s        va end args       return con     end      NSString ConcatenationTest h   import  lt SenTestingKit SenTestingKit h gt   import  NSString Concatenation h    interface NSString ConcatenationTest   SenTestCase   end      NSString ConcatenationTest m   import  NSString ConcatenationTest h    implementation NSString ConcatenationTest  -  void testSimpleConcatenation        STAssertEqualObjects    a    b      ab   nil       STAssertEqualObjects    a    b    c      abc   nil       STAssertEqualObjects    a    b    c    d      abcd   nil       STAssertEqualObjects    a    b    c    d    e      abcde   nil       STAssertEqualObjects    this       is       string       concatenation           this is string concatenation   nil      -  void testVarArgConcatenation        NSString  concatenation      a  concat   b   nil       STAssertEqualObjects concatenation    ab   nil        concatenation    concatenation concat   c     d   concatenation  nil       STAssertEqualObjects concatenation    abcdab   nil

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The only way to make c    a stringByAppendingString  b  any shorter is to use autocomplete at around the st point  The   operator is part of C  which doesn t know about Objective-C objects

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NSString  result  NSString stringWithFormat             Hello     World

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NSString  label1     Process Name     NSString  label2     Process Id     NSString  processName     NSProcessInfo processInfo  processName   NSString  processID    NSString stringWithFormat    d     NSProcessInfo processInfo  processIdentifier    NSString  testConcat    NSString stringWithFormat                 label1  processName  label2  processID

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My preferred method is this   NSString  firstString     foo   NSString  secondString     bar   NSString  thirdString     baz    NSString  joinedString      firstString  secondString  thirdString  join     You can achieve it by adding the join method to NSArray with a category    import  NSArray Join h   implementation NSArray  Join  - NSString   join       return  self componentsJoinedByString          end       it s the short definition for NSArray  I think this is the fastest method to concatenate strings   If you don t want to use the category  use directly the componentsJoinedByString  method   NSString  joinedString      firstString  secondString  thirdString  componentsJoinedByString

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Macro      stringConcat             A shortcut for concatenating strings  or objects  string representations          Input  Any number of non-nil NSObjects         Output  All arguments concatenated together into a single NSString    define stringConcat                 VA ARGS    componentsJoinedByString        Test Cases   -  void testStringConcat       NSString  actual       actual   stringConcat      might not make sense  but it s still a valid expression      STAssertEqualObjects      actual    stringConcat         actual   stringConcat   A        STAssertEqualObjects   A   actual    stringConcat         actual   stringConcat   A     B        STAssertEqualObjects   AB   actual    stringConcat         actual   stringConcat   A     B     C        STAssertEqualObjects   ABC   actual    stringConcat            works on all NSObjects  not just strings       actual   stringConcat  1         2         3       STAssertEqualObjects   1 2 3   actual    stringConcat          Alternate macro   if you wanted to enforce a minimum number of arguments      stringConcat             A shortcut for concatenating strings  or objects  string representations          Input  Two or more non-nil NSObjects         Output  All arguments concatenated together into a single NSString    define stringConcat str1  str2                 str1  str2      VA ARGS    componentsJoinedByString

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If you have 2 NSString literals  you can also just do this   NSString  joinedFromLiterals     ONE     MILLION     YEARS     DUNGEON        That s also useful for joining  defines    define STRINGA   Also  I don t know    define STRINGB   where food comes from    define JOINED STRINGA STRINGB   Enjoy

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Two answers I can think of    neither is particularly as pleasant as just having a concatenation operator   First  use an NSMutableString  which has an appendString method  removing some of the need for extra temp strings   Second  use an NSArray to concatenate via the componentsJoinedByString method

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Inspired by NSMutableString idea from Chris  I make a perfect macro imho  It supports insert nil elements without any Exceptions   import  lt libextobjc metamacros h gt    define STR CONCAT                           auto type str      NSMutableString string             metamacro foreach cxt never use immediately str concatify    str      VA ARGS               NSString   str   copy             define never use immediately str concatify  INDEX  CONTEXT  VAR         CONTEXT appendString VAR      quot  quot     Example  STR CONCAT   quot button bg  quot     count  stringValue    quot  png quot        button bg 2 png  If you like  you can use id type as parameter by using  VAR description  instead of NSString

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An option    NSString stringWithFormat              one  two  three     Another option   I m guessing you re not happy with multiple appends  a b c d   in which case you could do   NSLog         Util append one        two  nil        one two  NSLog         Util append three        two        one  nil       three two one   using something like     NSString    append  id  first            NSString   result            id eachArg      va list alist      if first                result    result stringByAppendingString first           va start alist  first           while  eachArg   va arg alist  id            result    result stringByAppendingString eachArg           va end alist             return result

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NSString  myString     This   NSString  test    myString stringByAppendingString    is just a test      After a couple of years now with Objective C I think this is the best way to work with Objective C to achieve what you are trying to achieve   Start keying in  N  in your Xcode application and it autocompletes to  NSString   key in  str  and it autocompletes to  stringByAppendingString   So the keystrokes are quite limited   Once you get the hang of hitting the     key and tabbing the process of writing readable code no longer becomes a problem  It is just a matter of adapting

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When dealing with strings often I find it easier to make the source file ObjC    then I can concatenate std  strings using the second method shown in the question   std  string stdstr    nsstr UTF8String      easier to read and more portable string manipulation goes here     NSString  nsstr    NSString stringWithUTF8String stdstr c str

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Two answers I can think of    neither is particularly as pleasant as just having a concatenation operator   First  use an NSMutableString  which has an appendString method  removing some of the need for extra temp strings   Second  use an NSArray to concatenate via the componentsJoinedByString method

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Either of these formats work in XCode7 when I tested   NSString  sTest1      This    and that    and one more    NSString  sTest2         This      and that      and one more      NSLog    n   n n    sTest1 sTest2     For some reason  you only need the   operator character on the first string of the mix   However  it doesn t work with variable insertion  For that  you can use this extremely simple solution with the exception of using a macro on  cat  instead of  and

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Use stringByAppendingString  this way   NSString  string1   string2   result   string1     This is    string2     my string     result    result stringByAppendingString string1   result    result stringByAppendingString string2     OR  result    result stringByAppendingString   This is     result    result stringByAppendingString   my string

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This is for better logging  and logging only - based on dicius excellent multiple argument method  I define a Logger class  and call it like so    Logger log    foobar       asdads    theString  nil     Almost good  except having to end the var args with  nil  but I suppose there s no way around that in Objective-C   Logger h   interface Logger   NSObject        void  log   id  first        end   Logger m   implementation Logger     void  log   id  first               TODO  make efficient  handle arguments other than strings        thanks to  diciu http   stackoverflow com questions 510269 how-do-i-concatenate-strings-in-objective-c     NSString   result            id eachArg      va list alist      if first                result    result stringByAppendingString first           va start alist  first           while  eachArg   va arg alist  id                          result    result stringByAppendingString eachArg                     va end alist             NSLog        result       end    In order to only concat strings  I d define a Category on NSString and add a static     concatenate method to it that looks exactly like the log method above except it returns the string  It s on NSString because it s a string method  and it s static because you want to create a new string from 1-N strings  not call it on any one of the strings that are part of the append

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An option    NSString stringWithFormat              one  two  three     Another option   I m guessing you re not happy with multiple appends  a b c d   in which case you could do   NSLog         Util append one        two  nil        one two  NSLog         Util append three        two        one  nil       three two one   using something like     NSString    append  id  first            NSString   result            id eachArg      va list alist      if first                result    result stringByAppendingString first           va start alist  first           while  eachArg   va arg alist  id            result    result stringByAppendingString eachArg           va end alist             return result

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listOfCatalogIDs       id     listOfCatalogIDs  componentsJoinedByString

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An option    NSString stringWithFormat              one  two  three     Another option   I m guessing you re not happy with multiple appends  a b c d   in which case you could do   NSLog         Util append one        two  nil        one two  NSLog         Util append three        two        one  nil       three two one   using something like     NSString    append  id  first            NSString   result            id eachArg      va list alist      if first                result    result stringByAppendingString first           va start alist  first           while  eachArg   va arg alist  id            result    result stringByAppendingString eachArg           va end alist             return result

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The only way to make c    a stringByAppendingString  b  any shorter is to use autocomplete at around the st point  The   operator is part of C  which doesn t know about Objective-C objects

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An option    NSString stringWithFormat              one  two  three     Another option   I m guessing you re not happy with multiple appends  a b c d   in which case you could do   NSLog         Util append one        two  nil        one two  NSLog         Util append three        two        one  nil       three two one   using something like     NSString    append  id  first            NSString   result            id eachArg      va list alist      if first                result    result stringByAppendingString first           va start alist  first           while  eachArg   va arg alist  id            result    result stringByAppendingString eachArg           va end alist             return result

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Well  as colon is kind of special symbol  but is part of method signature  it is possible to exted the NSString with category to add this non-idiomatic style of string concatenation      This       feels       almost like       concatenation with operators      You can define as many colon separated arguments as you find useful     -   For a good measure  I ve also added concat  with variable arguments that takes nil terminated list of strings        NSString Concatenation h   import  lt Foundation Foundation h gt    interface NSString  Concatenation   -  NSString     NSString   a  -  NSString     NSString   a   NSString   b  -  NSString     NSString   a   NSString   b   NSString   c  -  NSString     NSString   a   NSString   b   NSString   c   NSString   d   -  NSString   concat  NSString   strings         end      NSString Concatenation m   import  NSString Concatenation h    implementation NSString  Concatenation   -  NSString     NSString   a   return  self stringByAppendingString a    -  NSString     NSString   a   NSString   b   return   self a  b    -  NSString     NSString   a   NSString   b   NSString   c       return    self a  b  c     -  NSString     NSString   a   NSString   b   NSString   c   NSString   d       return     self a  b  c  d     -  NSString   concat  NSString   strings            va list args      va start args  strings        NSString  s          NSString  con    self stringByAppendingString strings        while  s   va arg args  NSString               con    con stringByAppendingString s        va end args       return con     end      NSString ConcatenationTest h   import  lt SenTestingKit SenTestingKit h gt   import  NSString Concatenation h    interface NSString ConcatenationTest   SenTestCase   end      NSString ConcatenationTest m   import  NSString ConcatenationTest h    implementation NSString ConcatenationTest  -  void testSimpleConcatenation        STAssertEqualObjects    a    b      ab   nil       STAssertEqualObjects    a    b    c      abc   nil       STAssertEqualObjects    a    b    c    d      abcd   nil       STAssertEqualObjects    a    b    c    d    e      abcde   nil       STAssertEqualObjects    this       is       string       concatenation           this is string concatenation   nil      -  void testVarArgConcatenation        NSString  concatenation      a  concat   b   nil       STAssertEqualObjects concatenation    ab   nil        concatenation    concatenation concat   c     d   concatenation  nil       STAssertEqualObjects concatenation    abcdab   nil

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NSString  myString     This   NSString  test    myString stringByAppendingString    is just a test      After a couple of years now with Objective C I think this is the best way to work with Objective C to achieve what you are trying to achieve   Start keying in  N  in your Xcode application and it autocompletes to  NSString   key in  str  and it autocompletes to  stringByAppendingString   So the keystrokes are quite limited   Once you get the hang of hitting the     key and tabbing the process of writing readable code no longer becomes a problem  It is just a matter of adapting

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Create a method   -  NSString   strCat   NSString   one   NSString   two       NSString  myString      myString    NSString stringWithFormat          one   two       return myString      Then  in whatever function you need it in  set your string or text field or whatever to the return value of this function   Or  to make a shortcut  convert the NSString into a C   string and use the     there

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I tried this code  it s worked for me   NSMutableString   myString   NSMutableString alloc init   myString  myString stringByAppendingString   first value    myString  myString stringByAppendingString   second string

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My preferred method is this   NSString  firstString     foo   NSString  secondString     bar   NSString  thirdString     baz    NSString  joinedString      firstString  secondString  thirdString  join     You can achieve it by adding the join method to NSArray with a category    import  NSArray Join h   implementation NSArray  Join  - NSString   join       return  self componentsJoinedByString          end       it s the short definition for NSArray  I think this is the fastest method to concatenate strings   If you don t want to use the category  use directly the componentsJoinedByString  method   NSString  joinedString      firstString  secondString  thirdString  componentsJoinedByString

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Either of these formats work in XCode7 when I tested   NSString  sTest1      This    and that    and one more    NSString  sTest2         This      and that      and one more      NSLog    n   n n    sTest1 sTest2     For some reason  you only need the   operator character on the first string of the mix   However  it doesn t work with variable insertion  For that  you can use this extremely simple solution with the exception of using a macro on  cat  instead of  and

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Create a method   -  NSString   strCat   NSString   one   NSString   two       NSString  myString      myString    NSString stringWithFormat          one   two       return myString      Then  in whatever function you need it in  set your string or text field or whatever to the return value of this function   Or  to make a shortcut  convert the NSString into a C   string and use the     there

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When dealing with strings often I find it easier to make the source file ObjC    then I can concatenate std  strings using the second method shown in the question   std  string stdstr    nsstr UTF8String      easier to read and more portable string manipulation goes here     NSString  nsstr    NSString stringWithUTF8String stdstr c str

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Here s a simple way  using the new array literal syntax   NSString   s        one      two      three   componentsJoinedByString                                 create array                                                              concatenate

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Was trying the following in the lldb pane    NSString stringWithFormat              three  two  one     which errors   instead use alloc and initWithFormat method     NSString alloc  initWithFormat                three     two     one

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You can use NSArray as  NSString  string1   This   NSString  string2   is just   NSString  string3   a test     NSArray  myStrings     NSArray alloc  initWithObjects string1  string2  string3 nil    NSString  fullLengthString    myStrings componentsJoinedByString          or  you can use   NSString  imageFullName  NSString stringWithFormat               string1 string2 string3

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This is for better logging  and logging only - based on dicius excellent multiple argument method  I define a Logger class  and call it like so    Logger log    foobar       asdads    theString  nil     Almost good  except having to end the var args with  nil  but I suppose there s no way around that in Objective-C   Logger h   interface Logger   NSObject        void  log   id  first        end   Logger m   implementation Logger     void  log   id  first               TODO  make efficient  handle arguments other than strings        thanks to  diciu http   stackoverflow com questions 510269 how-do-i-concatenate-strings-in-objective-c     NSString   result            id eachArg      va list alist      if first                result    result stringByAppendingString first           va start alist  first           while  eachArg   va arg alist  id                          result    result stringByAppendingString eachArg                     va end alist             NSLog        result       end    In order to only concat strings  I d define a Category on NSString and add a static     concatenate method to it that looks exactly like the log method above except it returns the string  It s on NSString because it s a string method  and it s static because you want to create a new string from 1-N strings  not call it on any one of the strings that are part of the append

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Two answers I can think of    neither is particularly as pleasant as just having a concatenation operator   First  use an NSMutableString  which has an appendString method  removing some of the need for extra temp strings   Second  use an NSArray to concatenate via the componentsJoinedByString method

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How about shortening stringByAppendingString and use a  define    define and stringByAppendingString   Thus you would use   NSString  myString      Hello   and   world      Problem is that it only works for two strings  you re required to wrap additional brackets for more appends   NSString  myString       Hello  and     world   and     again

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Inspired by NSMutableString idea from Chris  I make a perfect macro imho  It supports insert nil elements without any Exceptions   import  lt libextobjc metamacros h gt    define STR CONCAT                           auto type str      NSMutableString string             metamacro foreach cxt never use immediately str concatify    str      VA ARGS               NSString   str   copy             define never use immediately str concatify  INDEX  CONTEXT  VAR         CONTEXT appendString VAR      quot  quot     Example  STR CONCAT   quot button bg  quot     count  stringValue    quot  png quot        button bg 2 png  If you like  you can use id type as parameter by using  VAR description  instead of NSString

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NSString  label1     Process Name     NSString  label2     Process Id     NSString  processName     NSProcessInfo processInfo  processName   NSString  processID    NSString stringWithFormat    d     NSProcessInfo processInfo  processIdentifier    NSString  testConcat    NSString stringWithFormat                 label1  processName  label2  processID

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For all Objective C lovers that need this in a UI-Test   - void  clearTextField  XCUIElement   textField       NSString  currentInput    NSString   textField value      NSMutableString  deleteString    NSMutableString new        for int i   0  i  lt  currentInput length    i             deleteString appendString   NSString stringWithFormat    c   8               textField typeText deleteString

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When building requests for web services  I find doing something like the following is very easy and makes concatenation readable in Xcode   NSString  postBody            lt  xml version   1 0   encoding   utf-8    gt          lt soap Envelope xmlns xsi   http   www w3 org 2001 XMLSchema-instance   xmlns xsd   http   www w3 org 2001 XMLSchema   xmlns soap   http   schemas xmlsoap org soap envelope    gt           lt soap Body gt            lt WebServiceMethod xmlns      gt             lt parameter gt test lt  parameter gt            lt  WebServiceMethod gt           lt  soap Body gt          lt  soap Envelope gt

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NSNumber  lat    NSNumber numberWithDouble destinationMapView camera target latitude   NSNumber  lon    NSNumber numberWithDouble destinationMapView camera target longitude   NSString  DesconCatenated    NSString stringWithFormat          lat lon

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I tried this code  it s worked for me   NSMutableString   myString   NSMutableString alloc init   myString  myString stringByAppendingString   first value    myString  myString stringByAppendingString   second string

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NSString  label1     Process Name     NSString  label2     Process Id     NSString  processName     NSProcessInfo processInfo  processName   NSString  processID    NSString stringWithFormat    d     NSProcessInfo processInfo  processIdentifier    NSString  testConcat    NSString stringWithFormat                 label1  processName  label2  processID

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listOfCatalogIDs       id     listOfCatalogIDs  componentsJoinedByString

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I keep returning to this post and always end up sorting through the answers to find this simple solution that works with as many variables as needed    NSString stringWithFormat              three  two  one     For example   NSString  urlForHttpGet    NSString stringWithFormat   http   example com login username    userid  i   userName  userId

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I keep returning to this post and always end up sorting through the answers to find this simple solution that works with as many variables as needed    NSString stringWithFormat              three  two  one     For example   NSString  urlForHttpGet    NSString stringWithFormat   http   example com login username    userid  i   userName  userId

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Shortcut by creating AppendString  AS  macro        define AS A B       A  stringByAppendingString  B   NSString  myString     This    NSString  test   AS myString    is just a test      Note   If using a macro  of course just do it with variadic arguments  see EthanB s answer

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The only way to make c    a stringByAppendingString  b  any shorter is to use autocomplete at around the st point  The   operator is part of C  which doesn t know about Objective-C objects

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NSString  label1     Process Name     NSString  label2     Process Id     NSString  processName     NSProcessInfo processInfo  processName   NSString  processID    NSString stringWithFormat    d     NSProcessInfo processInfo  processIdentifier    NSString  testConcat    NSString stringWithFormat                 label1  processName  label2  processID

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The only way to make c    a stringByAppendingString  b  any shorter is to use autocomplete at around the st point  The   operator is part of C  which doesn t know about Objective-C objects

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