ios - Is it possible to add custom text in NSDateFormatter's format string?

Question

Suppose I want the date to look like this:

|1988|December|30|

How can add these to the dateFormatter or for that matter let the format be something like this:

30 in the month of December in the year of 1998

now for 1988,December and 30, I would like to use standard formats but I want the text I put to also accompany them.

specially in case of the above one where, in the format and pipes just come adjacent to the date format for date or month where there is no space between the format and the pipe.

Is any of this possible by just setting the format ?

Answer 1

You can insert arbitrary text (enclosed in single quotes) in the date format, for example.

NSDateFormatter *fmt = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[fmt setDateFormat:@"dd' in the month of 'MMMM' in the year of 'yyyy"];
NSString *s = [fmt stringFromDate:[NSDate date]];

Result:

09 in the month of July in the year of 2013