Re: parsing a string into words
Re: parsing a string into words
- Subject: Re: parsing a string into words
- From: Michael Ash <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:08:46 -0400
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Gerriet M. Denkmann
<email@hidden> wrote:
>
> I want to parse a string into words.
> Currently I do:
>
> NSString *theString = ....
> NSUInteger stringLength = [ theString length ];
> NATextView *theTextView = [[NSTextView alloc] initWithFrame:
> NSMakeRect(0,0,99,99) ];
> [ theTextView setString: theString ];
>
> for( NSUInteger t = 0; t < stringLength;)
> {
> NSRange proposedSelRange = NSMakeRange(t,0);
> NSRange wordRange = [ theTextView
> selectionRangeForProposedRange: proposedSelRange
>
> granularity: NSSelectByWord
> ];
> NSString *word = [ theString substringWithRange: wordRange ];
> t = NSMaxRange( wordRange );
>
> // do something with <word>
> };
>
> [ theTextView release ];
>
> but this looks rather wasteful. Is there a more elegant way?
>
> Please note that there are lots of languages, where words are not separated
> by space or punctuation.
If you can require 10.5, use CFStringTokenizer. It is really great,
and is a lot simpler and less evil than this.
Mike
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