How to get rid of the date and time that appears before every NSLog statement in the console

Read these:

• https://github.com/davislg/QuietLog
• https://web.archive.org/web/20140924195139/http://cocoaheads.byu.edu/wiki/different-nslog

It's a Github project called "QuietLog", originally from our CocoaHeads site, that explains how to create a QuietLog function that does what you're describing. It also shows how to wrap QuietLog into a macro called LocationLog so that it'll print out the file name and line number where you've got the log statement. I use it in all of my projects, and I don't lose stray "NSLog" statements anymore.

This preprocessor macro is easy to implement and you don't have to change any of your current NSLog statements:

#define NSLog(FORMAT, ...) printf("%s\n", [[NSString stringWithFormat:FORMAT, ##__VA_ARGS__] UTF8String]);

It works completely like NSLog without all the extra things before the message.

I original found this on another SO question, but I can't find it now.