Displaying percentage using NSString

Question

How do we display percentage character in objective-c?

I am using this:

[NSString localizedStringWithFormat:@"%.2f %", percentageQs]

But for some reason, it doesn't recognize the %. thought i could escape it using this \ but i was so wrong.

possible duplicate of [How to escape the % sign in C's printf?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1860159/how-to-escape-the-sign-in-cs-printf) — devnull, Jul 21 '14 at 12:18

score 17 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:15

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There was a similar question tagged C asked earlier today: How to escape the sign in C . Answer here is the same... use a double %%.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:15

Community

answered Dec 07 '09 at 15:17

Jarret Hardie

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 07 '09 at 15:17

4

% is used as an escape character, e.g. %@, %i, etc.

So to use the % sign then you use two, i.e. %%

answered Dec 07 '09 at 15:17

Michael Waterfall

Hardik Mamtora · Answer 3 · 2014-04-23T08:04:18.403

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The code for percent sign in NSString format is %%. This is also true for NSLog() and printf() formats.

edited Apr 23 '14 at 08:04

answered Apr 23 '14 at 07:03

Hardik Mamtora

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