NSString 0.1 28 February, 2000 NSString Foundation/NSString.h NSCoding

NSString objects represent an immutable string of characters. NSString itself is an abstract class which provides factory methods to generate objects of unspecified subclasses.

A constant NSString can be created using the following syntax: @"...", where the contents of the quotes are the string, using only ASCII characters.

 availableStringEncodings

Returns an array of all available string encodings, terminated by a null value.

 defaultCStringEncoding

Returns the encoding used for any method accepting a C string.

 localizedNameOfStringEncoding: encoding

Returns the localized name of the encoding specified by encoding.

 localizedStringWithFormat: format, pathWithComponents: components string stringWithCharacters: chars length: length stringWithContentsOfFile: path stringWithCString: cString stringWithCString: cString stringWithFormat: format, stringWithString: aString canBeConvertedToEncoding: encoding capitalizedString caseInsensitiveCompare: aString characterAtIndex: index commonPrefixWithString: aString compare: aString compare: aString compare: aString options: mask range: aRange completePathIntoString: outputName caseSensitive: flag matchesIntoArray: outputArray componentsSeparatedByString: separator cString cStringLength dataUsingEncoding: encoding dataUsingEncoding: encoding allowLossyConversion: flag description doubleValue fastestEncoding fileSystemRepresentation floatValue getCharacters: buffer getCharacters: buffer getCString: buffer getCString: buffer maxLength: maxLength getCString: buffer maxLength: maxLength range: aRange remainingRange: leftoverRange getFileSystemRepresentation: buffer maxLength: maxLength getLineStart: startIndex end: lineEndIndex contentsEnd: contentsEndIndex hash hasPrefix: aString hasSuffix: aString init initWithCharacters: characters initWithCharactersNoCopy: characters length: length freeWhenDone: flag initWithContentsOfFile: path initWithCString: cString initWithCString: cString initWithCStringNoCopy: cString length: length freeWhenDone: flag initWithData: data encoding: encoding initWithFormat: format, initWithFormat: format arguments: argList initWithFormat: format initWithFormat: format locale: dictionary arguments: argList initWithString: aString intValue isAbsolutePath isEqualToString: aString lastPathComponent length lineRangeForRange: aRange lossyCString lowercaseString pathComponents pathExtension propertyList propertyListFromStringsFileFormat rangeOfCharacterFromSet: aSet rangeOfCharacterFromSet: aSet options: mask rangeOfCharacterFromSet: aSet options: mask range: aRange rangeOfComposedCharacterSequenceAtIndex: anIndex rangeOfString: aString rangeOfString: aString rangeOfString: subString options: mask range: aRange smallestEncoding stringByAbbreviatingWithTildeInPath stringByAppendingFormat: format, stringByAppendingPathComponent: aString stringByAppendingPathExtension: string stringByAppendingString: aString stringByDeletingLastPathComponent stringByDeletingPathExtension stringByExpandingTildeInPath stringsByAppendingPaths: paths substringFromIndex: anIndex substringToIndex: anIndex substringWithRange: aRange uppercaseString writeToFile: path atomically: flag