How to check if a string only contains alphanumeric characters in objective C?

Question

I'm working on a small iphone project and i would need to check if the userName entered only contains alphanumerical characters? (A-Z, a-z, 0-9. How would i go about checking it?

Answer 1

If you don't want to bring in a regex library for this one task...

NSString *str = @"aA09"; NSCharacterSet *alphaSet = [NSCharacterSet alphanumericCharacterSet]; BOOL valid = [[str stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet:alphaSet] isEqualToString:@""];