description(withLocale:)

Declaration

func description(withLocale locale: Any?) -> String

Parameters

• locale:

  An object containing locale information with which to format the description. Use nil if you don’t want the description formatted.

Return Value

A string that represents the contents of the number object formatted using the locale information in locale.

Discussion

For example, if you have an NSNumber object that has the integer value 522, sending it the description(withLocale:) message returns the string “522”.

To obtain the string representation, this method invokes NSString’s initWithFormat:locale: method, supplying the format based on the type the NSNumber object was created with:

See Also

Retrieving String Representations

• stringValue