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Re: Why is NSString.UTF8String unavailable in Swift?
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Re: Why is NSString.UTF8String unavailable in Swift?


  • Subject: Re: Why is NSString.UTF8String unavailable in Swift?
  • From: Kevin Meaney <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2015 00:09:11 +0000


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> On 21 Mar 2015, at 23:41, Jens Alfke <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>
>> On Mar 21, 2015, at 2:13 PM, Quincey Morris <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> Well, “String” is not “NSString”.
>
> Sure, but it’s bridged with NSString. The “Using Swift With Cocoa” book says: “Swift automatically bridges between the String type and the NSString class. This means that anywhere you use an NSString object, you can use a Swift String type instead  … you should almost never need to use the NSString class directly in your own code.”

But the bridging only happens if you import Foundation, otherwise there is no NSString to bridge with.

>
>>    var str = "Hello, playground” as NSString
>>    str.cStringUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding) // OK
>>    str.UTF8String  // OK
>
> -cStringUsingEncoding: and several other NSString methods I’ve tried work without the “as NSString” trick; what’s special about “UTF8String”?
>
> —Jens
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