cocoa - Easiest way to format a number with thousand separators to an NSString according to the Locale

Question

I can't seem to find an easy way to do it. The exact thing I need is:

[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%d doodads", n];

Where n is an int. So for 1234 I'd want this string (under my locale):

@"1,234 doodads"

Thanks.

Answer 1

For 10.6 this works:

NSNumberFormatter* numberFormatter = [[NSNumberFormatter alloc] init];
[numberFormatter setFormatterBehavior: NSNumberFormatterBehavior10_4];
[numberFormatter setNumberStyle: NSNumberFormatterDecimalStyle];
NSString *numberString = [numberFormatter stringFromNumber: [NSNumber numberWithInteger: i]];

And it properly handles localization.