strange behavior of xcode 4.2 - xcode

Question

Strange and funny think is going on
Code:
-(void)saveFile
{
NSFileManager *fileMng = [NSFileManager defaultManager];
if(![fileMng fileExistsAtPath:self.appFilesPath])
{
NSError *error = nil;
BOOL success = [fileMng createDirectoryAtPath:self.appFilesPath withIntermediateDirectories:YES attributes:nil error:&error];
if(!success)
{
NSLog([error localizedDescription]);
}
}
NSLog([NSString stringWithFormat:#"%#",self.appFilesPath]);
[fileMng createFileAtPath:self.fileFullPath contents:self.fileData attributes:nil];
[self.fileData writeToFile:self.fileFullPath atomically:YES];
}
and this line
NSLog([NSString stringWithFormat:#"%#",self.appFilesPath]);
should give me something like this
file://localhost/Users/user/Library/Application%20Support/iPhone%20Simulator/5.0/Applications/BF35B859-514B-45AA-8E3A-B2CE65BD82B6/Documents/AppFiles
Directory AppFiles should be created under ../Documents/ directory,
but it's not there...
and the nslog gives me something like this:
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when i run code second time, the if condision is skiped, but ../Documents/ directory is stil empty
来瑡㹥"㉀䀸 - i mean wtf, first time something like this,
restarting xcode, mac did't help,
simulator is all set to english,
it also happen in other projects,
keyboard setting ant nationalization looks ok,
so realy I have no clue what is wrong
any ideas?

Answer 1

You can not just NSLog a string. The string argument it takes is a format (like in printf) which interpeted specially. In your case, it is reading random memory because %20S means to interpret the next argument as pointer to null-terminated string of wide characters and print it right-aligned in 20 columns; and they are Chinese because most of Unicode is occupied by Chinese hieroglyphs.
This is the correct way to do it:
NSLog(#"%#", self.appFilesPath);