iphone - How do I localize a string with formatting placeholders?

Question

How do I localize a string that has placeholders in it with NSLocalizedString?

For example:

[NSString stringWithFormat:@"You can afford %i at %@%li.",[kCash integerValue]/self.price, kYen,  self.price]

How do I localize this? Do I do break up the strings into multiple localized strings? How then do I deal with varying sentence structure and grammar?

Answer 1

NSLocalizedString won't alter your placeholders, so stringWithFormat can use them as normal. In your example, using numbered placeholders is probably a good idea -

    [NSString stringWithFormat:@"You can afford %1$i at %2$@%3$li.",
                              [kCash integerValue]/self.price, kYen,  self.price]

More info here: Is there a way to specify argument position/index in NSString stringWithFormat?