Re: Mystifying index out of bounds error
Re: Mystifying index out of bounds error
- Subject: Re: Mystifying index out of bounds error
- From: Mike Abdullah <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2012 14:24:21 +0000
Well that sounds an impossible problem, but might not be. Give us the crash report too.
On 1 Nov 2012, at 12:11, Antonio Nunes <email@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have this code in my app:
>
> - (void)keyDown:(NSEvent *)theEvent
> {
> unichar oneChar;
> NSString *theChars = [theEvent charactersIgnoringModifiers];
>
> if ( 0 == theChars.length ) {
> return;
> }
>
> oneChar = [theChars characterAtIndex:0];
>
> …
> }
>
> After about 10 months of the app being available, with this method unchanged, I received a single crash report that points to a crash on the last line:
> -[__NSCFConstantString characterAtIndex:]: Range or index out of bounds
>
>
> The length property of a string returns an NSUInteger, so it should never be lower than zero. I don't see how the out of bounds error could ever happen for index 0, when the string has a length greater than 0. Any ideas? (Considering that I only ever received a single report for what is an often exercised bit of code, should I just consider this a freak incident and ignore it?)
>
> -António
>
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