Re: Re: Correct usage of replaceOccurencesOfString:withString:options:range
Re: Re: Correct usage of replaceOccurencesOfString:withString:options:range
- Subject: Re: Re: Correct usage of replaceOccurencesOfString:withString:options:range
- From: <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 7:06:06 +0000
Thank you again, Robert! I didn't think of that because I assumed that since the backslash character was inside a string object that it wouldn't interpret it as an escape character. I know better know. Thank you again!
James
>
> From: Robert Martin <email@hidden>
> Date: 2005/02/25 Fri AM 06:51:48 GMT
> To: email@hidden
> Subject: Re: Correct usage of replaceOccurencesOfString:withString:options:range
>
> Since it's the escape that's illegal, try escaping the escape - ie:
> make your replacement string: @"\\ ". This will put the 'illegal by
> itself' escape<space> into the string.
>
> Rob
>
> On Feb 25, 2005, at 1:12 AM, email@hidden wrote:
>
> > Could someone please illustrate the correct usage of this method from
> > NSMutableString? I have a string that represents a path to a file on
> > the filesystem. If there are any spaces in the path (such as a folder
> > name), I need to escape those spaces with a "\" so I can use them as
> > an argument to an NSTask running a command-line tool.
> >
> > It shows that it returns an unsigned int, so I've tried this:
> >
> > unsigned int i;
> > NSString* str = @"My Documents/Documents/James Stuff/";
> > i = [replaceOccurencesOfString:@" " withString"@"\ " options:nil
> > range:NSMakeRange([0, str length])];
> >
> > But that doesn't work. It gives me two errors of "unknown escape
> > sequence: '\040'.
> >
> > It shouldn't be that hard to replace all occurences of a space with an
> > backslash and a space, should it?
> >
> > James
> >
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