Re: Quick way to find is a path is contained in another path?
Re: Quick way to find is a path is contained in another path?
- Subject: Re: Quick way to find is a path is contained in another path?
- From: Laurent Daudelin <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 17:04:19 -0700
Yeah, I found out that hasPrefix: was not really a good one...
-Laurent.
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Laurent Daudelin
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On Mar 18, 2011, at 17:58, Gary L. Wade wrote:
> If you're not concerned about mount-path inclusion, where Library may be
> on another volume but mounted at that point, use
> rangeOfString:options:range: with an anchored search option and range
> consisting of the full length of the laurent-ending string. You have
> three possible results: not found (no), lengths are equal (yes), or length
> to search is larger than the length found (maybe). In that last case, see
> if the next character after the found range is a path separator. If it
> is, (yes); if not, (no). The method hasPrefix: is pretty much a
> convenience for this call but does not differentiate in the last case and
> would always return yes.
>
> On 03/18/2011 2:59 PM, "Laurent Daudelin" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> I have a couple of ideas using "pathComponents" but does anybody have a
>> quick way to find if a given path is contained in another path, e.g. if
>> "/Library/Users/laurent/Library" is contained in "/Library/Users/laurent"
>> (in this case, it is)?
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