Unfortunately, this is not as straight forward as it seems it should be. This really comes down to roughly two approaches in my opinion: stringByAppendingString approach: strigWithFormat approach: References StackOverflow, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/510269/how-do-i-concatenate-strings-in-objective-c cocoadevcentral.com, “Learn Objective-C”, http://cocoadevcentral.com/d/learn_objectivec/ Continue reading