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Re: reading a text file
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Re: reading a text file


  • Subject: Re: reading a text file
  • From: Tito Ciuro <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 21:34:12 +0200

On domingo, mayo 18, 2003, at 18:17 Europe/Madrid, Marc Weil wrote:

> NSString *newString = [NSString stringWithCString: [yourData bytes]];
>
> That would be the way to convert an NSData object to an NSString
> object.
>
> -- Marc Weil

I wouldn't do that.

It's better if you use NSString's stringWithUTF8String instead:

NSString *newString = [NSString stringWithUTF8String:[yourData bytes]];

If you use stringWithCString, you'll skip international symbols, like
"q", accents, et al.

Regards,

-- Tito

> On 5/17/03 9:47 PM, "Paul N. Schatz" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> As part of a Cocoa program, I need to read a BBEdit file into
>> a text field or string. Using 'contentsAtPath:', I get an NSData
>> file of bytes, but I can't seem to subsequently convert that to text.
>> Is there a way to do that, or is there a better way to do the whole
>> thing?
>>
>> Paul
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