Formatting Strings question

[Eagle11]

I have a question about formatting a string. I have a timer in my app that displays hour:min:sec. Right now I am using this line:

NSString *nssTimer = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%2i:%2i:%2i", nsiTimerHour, nsiTimerMin, nsiTimerSeconds];

to format the string. The problem is that is ends of looking like this
#: #: #
when the numbers are less than ten. I want it to look like this
##:##:##
regardless of what the values are.
Is there a way to achieve that?

[kingbombs]

you can just try
NSDate *newdate = alloc or what ever
then string with format %@
will print all of it for you, now will put the date in there but i think there is a way (think it says in apple docs) to just show the time

EDIT: about to go to bed so sorry for being brief

[deansx]

Originally Posted by Eagle11

I have a question about formatting a string. I have a timer in my app that displays hour:min:sec. Right now I am using this line:

NSString *nssTimer = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%2i:%2i:%2i", nsiTimerHour, nsiTimerMin, nsiTimerSeconds];

to format the string. The problem is that is ends of looking like this
#: #: #
when the numbers are less than ten. I want it to look like this
##:##:##
regardless of what the values are.
Is there a way to achieve that?

I have some code that displays minutes:seconds:tenths. I want the minutes and seconds to be two digits, even if there are less than 10 of either. The formatting that works for me is:

[self setText:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%02d:%02d.%1d",dispMins,dispSecs,tsecs]];

Will give output, of:

02:08.3

for 2 minutes, 8 and 3 tenths seconds.

Good luck!

[Eagle11]

Originally Posted by deansx

I have some code that displays minutes:seconds:tenths. I want the minutes and seconds to be two digits, even if there are less than 10 of either. The formatting that works for me is:

[self setText:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%02d:%02d.%1d",dispMins,dispSecs,tsecs]];

Will give output, of:



for 2 minutes, 8 and 3 tenths seconds.

Good luck!

Thanks for the help!