On Jan 24, 2011, at 6:54 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote:
On Jan 24, 2011, at 6:02 PM, Matt Neuburg m...@tidbits.com wrote:
(2) A common trick is make the text file a format string (i.e., containing a
lot of %@) and just hand it to stringWithFormat along with all the
substitutions. Badda bing
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 1:56 AM, Matt Neuburg m...@tidbits.com wrote:
This is madlibs; the template string comes from him, the programmer. Only the
words that go into the blanks come from the user. You'll need to prove to me
that performing the substitution this way is any more dangerous than
On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 02:17:46 -0800, Kyle Sluder kyle.slu...@gmail.com said:
For something more complicated, a simple XML format might be appropriate:
madlib
The quick blank type=adjective / fox jumped over the lazy blank
type=noun /
/madlib
Especially if you want to share the resulting madlib
On Jan 22, 2011, at 9:37 AM, cocoa-dev-requ...@lists.apple.com wrote:
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2011 09:19:50 -0500
From: Jeremy Matthews jeremymatth...@mac.com
Subject: lots of find/replace in text file
So...the app I previously mentioned, ala Mad Libs...I now have lots more text
to replace
So...the app I previously mentioned, ala Mad Libs...I now have lots more text
to replace within the file (new additions). Besides using find/replace using
NSScanner and NSStrings' stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfStringis there a
better way, to perform a slew of find/place operations with a
Jeremy Matthews wrote:
I can't help but think there might be a better (and more efficient
way) of handling this?
How much better (and more efficient) does it have to be?
It's a simple game, right? Is it currently too slow or memory-
consuming? If not, why change it?
If you want a
The Mad Libs program I was working on just used the standard printf
placeholders with the ordering parameters. When showing the parts of speech, I
just supply adjective. When showing the user's choice, I just supply red.
- Gary L. Wade (Sent from my iPhone)
On Jan 22, 2011, at 6:19 AM, Jeremy
