Line breaks in "NSString"s returned from PList don't work.

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Published on 2010-03-18T03:18:24Z Indexed on 2010/03/18 3:21 UTC
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I've seen this post: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2035567/nsstring-newline-escape-in-plist but I'd like to know if there's a way to pragmatically render \n line breaks.

I'm currently using:

decisionText.text = [NSString stringWithFormat: (@"%@", [replies objectAtIndex:(arc4random() % [replies count])])];

Which randomly grabs a String from the replies array. The array was loaded from a plist like so:

replies = [[NSMutableArray alloc] initWithContentsOfFile:[[NSBundle mainBundle]pathForResource:@"AdviceList" ofType:@"plist"]];

What am I missing? The answer can't be to manually enter line breaks. That's not programming! (Sounds like word processing to me.)

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