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objective-ccocoansfilemanager

Creating a file template?

I have about 20 lines of text that needs to have some values in it replaced when I use createFileAtPath

e.g.

[firstname] has a surname of [surname]
and is [gender]
etc etc etc
etc etc etc
etc etc etc
etc etc etc
and lives in [suburb]

I have to create this file a number of times when a user clicks a button

Can this be done by creating some sort of template or constant where I can replace the placeholders with my variables? Something similar to NSString stringWithFormat called like 

[NSString stringWithFormat:myTemplate, person.firstname, person.surname, person.gender, person.suburb]
Solution

  • I would look at NSRegularExpression - replaceMatchesInString:options:range:withTemplate:. You can match something in a NSMutableString and replace it.