Adding multiple strings to a string - xcode

Question

How do I add multiple strings to a string ?
Whats the easiest way to do that ?
If I don't want to create a new line of code every time I add something to a string, I'd like to do something like that :
NSString *recipeTitle = [#"<h5>Recipe name: " stringByAppendingFormat:recipe.name, #"</h5>"];
NSLog(#"%#", recipeTitle);
// This shows: <h5>Recipe name: myrecipe
// Where's the </h5> closing that header ? It will only show up with the next line of code
recipeTitle = [recipeTitle stringByAppendingFormat:#"</h5>"];
//my problem is that will result in more than 1k lines of programming
Do I have to necessarily add a new line appending the appended every time ?
Is there a faster/more productive way to do that ?
I'm trying to compose the email body with my tableview in it and that will result in a huge set of programming lines. Isthere anybody that could give me any hint or anything better than composing a huuuge string just so i can populate my email body with a table containing my tableview data ?
Any help to make this more productive is appreciated. Thanks !
Carlos Farini.
// After working on it a bit i got:
-(IBAction)sendmail{
MFMailComposeViewController *composer = [[MFMailComposeViewController alloc] init];
[composer setMailComposeDelegate:self];
NSString *recipeTitle = #"<h5>Recipe name: ";
recipeTitle = [recipeTitle stringByAppendingFormat:recipe.name];
recipeTitle = [recipeTitle stringByAppendingFormat:#"</h5>"];
NSString *ingredientAmount = #"";
NSString *ingredientAisle = #"";
NSString *ingredientTitle = #"";
NSString *tableFirstLine = #"<table width='90%' border='1'><tr><td>Ingredient</td><td>Amount</td><td>Aisle</td></tr>";
NSString *increments = #"";
int i=0;
for (i=0; i < [ingredients count]; i++) {
Ingredient *ingredient = [ingredients objectAtIndex:i];
ingredientTitle = ingredient.name;
ingredientAmount = ingredient.amount;
ingredientAisle = ingredient.aisle;
increments = [increments stringByAppendingFormat:recipeTitle];
increments = [tableFirstLine stringByAppendingFormat:#"<tr><td>"];
increments = [increments stringByAppendingFormat:ingredientTitle];
increments = [increments stringByAppendingFormat:#"</td><td>"];
increments = [increments stringByAppendingFormat:ingredientAmount];
increments = [increments stringByAppendingFormat:#"</td><td>"];
increments = [increments stringByAppendingFormat:ingredientAisle];
increments = [increments stringByAppendingFormat:#"</td></tr>"];
if (i == ([ingredients count]-1)) {
//IF THIS IS THE LAST INGREDIENT, CLOSE THE TABLE
increments = [increments stringByAppendingFormat:#"</table>"];
}
}
NSLog(#"CODE:: %#", increments);
if ([MFMailComposeViewController canSendMail]) {
[composer setToRecipients:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:#"123#abc.com", nil]];
[composer setSubject:#"subject here"];
[composer setMessageBody:increments isHTML:YES];
[composer setModalTransitionStyle:UIModalTransitionStyleFlipHorizontal];
[self presentModalViewController:composer animated:YES];
[composer release];
}else {
[composer release];
}
}
But then again, it's showing just one row in the table. What am I doing wrong here ?

Answer 1

How about something like this:
NSString *recipeTitle = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"<h5>Recipe name: %# </h5>", recipe.name];