I really don¹t want to search though the entire string to find a replace. The "©" is just an example of the characters I would like to remove. I guess my real question is how do I remove all Unicode characters from a string?
Thanks, Charles On 3/17/11 7:31 AM, "Conrad Shultz" <con...@synthetiqsolutions.com> wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >On 3/17/11 7:03 AM, Heizer, Charles wrote: >> Hello, >> I would like to know how to remove certain characters from a NSString. >>The >> characters are "©". I thought I could just use encodings and convert >>the >> string using NSASCIIStringEncoding but that did not work and I'm not >>sure >> what the car codes are for these as well. > >Perhaps I am missing something, but since NSString handles Unicode fine, >just use either NSString's >stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:withString: or NSMutableString's >replaceOccurrencesOfString:withString:options:range: ? > >This makes for less work and more readable code since you should be able >to literally paste the "foreign" characters into your search string and >not have to fuss around with character codes. > >Of course, if your input contains the problem characters in multiple >underlying representations (say, from different languages), this >complicates matters. Such a situation happened to me a while back, >wherein an application on the system and the terminal had different >notions of how to store accented characters. Suffice it to say this led >to much hair pulling when it came time to do source code management >("file X is been added, file X has been removed"). > > > >- -- >Conrad Shultz > >Synthetiq Solutions >www.synthetiqsolutions.com >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) >Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > >iEYEARECAAYFAk2CGzoACgkQaOlrz5+0JdWj4ACfd2ZCBIVmqGjFT29EmBE7tdaS >D/cAnRsLDoDRD3r336J27udk6GTpCh/j >=eAiC >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com