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iosobjective-cnsstringnsrange

Shortcut to generate an NSRange for entire length of NSString?

Is there a short way to say "entire string" rather than typing out:

NSMakeRange(0, myString.length)]

It seems silly that the longest part of this kind of code is the least important (because I usually want to search/replace within entire string)…

[myString replaceOccurrencesOfString:@"replace_me"
                          withString:replacementString
                             options:NSCaseInsensitiveSearch
                               range:NSMakeRange(0, myString.length)];
Solution

  • Function? Category method?

    - (NSRange)fullRange
{
    return (NSRange){0, [self length]};
}

    [myString replaceOccurrencesOfString:@"replace_me"
                          withString:replacementString
                             options:NSCaseInsensitiveSearch
                               range:[myString fullRange]];