Can NSString be treated as a NSCFDecimal?

Question

I wanted to compare two strings using - (BOOL)isEqualToString:(NSString *)aString These strings are objects from a dictionary using -(id)objectForKey:(id)aKey containing numerical characters.

When I check the classes of these strings using [object class], no matter how I casted them to be NSString *, it keeps showing that they are NSCFDecimal number, requiring to be compared using ==. If I wanted to use isEqualToString on them, it throws error.

Can anyone explain why this is happening?

Answer 1

Objective-C is highly dynamic language. It's no matter what type of variable you declare, only runtime matters. For example:

NSString *str = [NSNumber numberWithInt:5];

str - is NSNumber.

If you want to compare NSInteger (for exmaple) with string you should do like this:

NSInteger num = 9;
NSString *stringWithNumber = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%d", num];
if ([stringWithNumber isEqualToString:yourString])
{ ... }