NSString pedantic question
NSString pedantic question
- Subject: NSString pedantic question
- From: John Stiles <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:53:12 -0700
I am writing code that deals with NSStrings and paths.
I know that, to turn an NSString into a proper path, the best API to
use is [myString fileSystemRepresentation]. You can also use
[myString UTF8String] and it seems to work fine, but everyone says
that the best, future-proof method is -fileSystemRepresentation, so
we use it without question.
But what about going in reverse—if you've got a file system
representation in a char array, there doesn't seem to be a [NSString
stringWithFileSystemRepresentation:myCharPtr] API to load it back
into an NSString. I've been using [NSString
stringWithUTF8String:myCharPtr], which works fine, but it doesn't
feel all nice and symmetric like it should. If that hypothetical
future came to pass where the file system representation was no
longer UTF8, I'd have to revamp this code. I don't expect that this
will ever be an issue in practice, but I still feel like I'm missing
something.
Any thoughts?_______________________________________________
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