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How to pull an integer value from NSRange?

I have an NSRange and need to break a string into two substrings on either side of this NSRange. How do I get an integer value (like the index) out of an NSRange?

Solution

  • NSRange struct consists of two integers - the location and the length. 

    typedef struct _NSRange {
    NSUInteger location;
    NSUInteger length;
} NSRange;

    It looks like location and location+length are the two expressions that you are looking for - the ranges for the left and right substring are as follows:

    NSRange prefixRange = NSMakeRange(0, myRange.location);
NSUInteger pos =myRange.location+myRange.length;
NSRange suffixRange = NSMakeRange(pos, myString.length - pos);