Re: representing TABs in NSString.
Re: representing TABs in NSString.
- Subject: Re: representing TABs in NSString.
- From: Jake <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 16:38:27 -0500 (EST)
Thanks for the suggestions. Okay, what happend to me was that when I later
casted that NSCharacterSet to NSScanner's skipSet, it was skipping tabs
when I used scanUpToString:inToString. I will try both of those now.
Thanks again.
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> [wanttab removeCharactersInRange:NSMakeRange('\t',1)];
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You really shouldn't have to do that, though. There is nothing special
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about the tab character; something else is wrong in your code. Here's
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my test:
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{
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NSString *tabString = @"\t";
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NSMutableCharacterSet *charSet;
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NSLog(@"string length (should be 1): %u", [tabString length]);
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charSet = [[NSCharacterSet controlCharacterSet] mutableCopy];
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NSLog(@"is tab in controlCharacterSet? (should be 1): %d",
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[charSet characterIsMember:'\t']);
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[charSet removeCharactersInString:tabString];
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NSLog(@"is tab in charSet? (should be 0): %d", [charSet
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characterIsMember:'\t']);
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}
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The results are
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string length (should be 1): 1
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is tab in controlCharacterSet? (should be 1): 1
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is tab in charSet? (should be 0): 0
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so it appears to work just fine.
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--
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Kurt Revis
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email@hidden