NSString and Numbers
One of the things we used to keep forgetting it how to turn an NSString object into an integer (or a float) -
int i = [sMyString intValue];
float j = [sMyString floatValue];
And, if you have some numbers and want to turn them into a NSString? Just like this,
sMyString = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"An int %d and a float %f",iMyInt,fMyFloat];
Is NSString empty?
Sometimes we need to know if a NSString is empty, so we use the length like this -
if([string length] == 0)
{
// string is empty or nil
}
But, sometimes we also need to know if the string is just full of whitespace too, we do that like this -
if([[string stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet:[NSCharacterSet whitespaceCharacterSet]] length] == 0)
{
// string is all whitespace
}
Simply put the two together in a function to test for emptiness or whitespace!
