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Break up long formatted NSString over multiple lines

Asked 2011-04-13T15:36:09.937
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Given the following line of Objective-C code: 

[NSString stringWithFormat:@"\n Elapsed Time  \n Battery Level:  \n Torque:  \n Energy Used  \n Energy Regenerated:\n Cadence: \n Battery Temp: \n Motor Temp: \n Incline: \n Speed MPH: \n Speed KPH:\n Avg Speed MPH: \n Avg Speed KPH:\n Distance Miles:\n Distance Km: \n Time Date Stamp:\n"];

In Xcode or any code editor, is it possible to avoid having a very long string that must be read by scrolling across it in the editor?

Is there a way of breaking it up into multiple lines? I am finding that if I try to do this, the code will not compile, because the compiler reaches the end of a line and does not see the closing quotation mark (") for the string.

Does anyone know a way around this?

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Yes there is. Adjacent strings will be concatenated for you by the compiler.

NSString *info = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"\n Elapsed Time  \n"
                      "Battery Level:  \n"
                      "Torque:  \n"
                      "Energy Used  \n"
                      "Energy Regenerated:\n Cadence: \n"
                      "Battery Temp: \n"
                      "Motor Temp: \n"
                      "Incline: \n Speed MPH: \n" 
                      "Speed KPH:\n"
                      "Avg Speed MPH: %f \n"
                      "Avg Speed KPH:\n"
                      "Distance Miles:\n"
                      "Distance Km: \n"
                      "Time Date Stamp:\n"];
NSLog(info);
answered 2011-04-13T15:40:52.293

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