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Re: Remove excess line breaks
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Re: Remove excess line breaks


  • Subject: Re: Remove excess line breaks
  • From: p3consulting <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 17:29:47 +0100

On 15 dic. 2003, at 13:22, Jens Bauer wrote:

Hi Rick,

Try looking at the NSString snippet on <URL:http://objc-source.com/>

On Monday, Dec 15, 2003, at 12:53 Europe/Copenhagen, Rick Anderson wrote:

I'm trying to remove excess line breaks from a string, replacing any given number of returns with one single return. If I were doing it in perl, it would look like this:

$theString =~ s/\r+/\r/g

So, here's what I come up with in Cocoa. If it looks a little convoluted, well... it is. And it also doesn't work. Any thoughts with what's wrong with this or possibly a more elegant way to do it would be appreciated. The first line is just a test to see if the string still contains any occurrence of a double return; the third line simply runs through and replaces any double returns with a single return.

if ( (NSEqualRanges ([endString rangeOfString:@"\r\r"], NSMakeRange(NSNotFound, 0) ) ) == NO)
{
[endString replaceOccurrencesOfString:@"\r\r" withString:@"\r" options:nil range:NSMakeRange(0, [endString length])];
}


Should be a "while" not a "if" to make the Cocoa version perform exactly as the Perl one.

After replacing an occurence, the replace algorithm continues after the replacement, so 3 CRs becomes 2 CRs not 1 CR as expected.
(4 CRs -> 2 CRs, 5 CRS -> 3 CRs etc.)


Pascal Pochet
P3 Consulting
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