I would like to find all occurrences of a substring in a NSString, and iterate one by one to do some changes to that NSString. How should I do it?
How about
// find first occurrence of search string in source string
NSRange range = [sourceString rangeOfString:@"searchString"];
while(range.location != NSNotFound)
{
// build a new string with your changed values
range = [sourceString rangeOfString:@"searchString" options:0 range:NSMakeRange(range.location + 1, [sourceString length] - range.location - 1)];
}
Or just
[sourceString stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:searchString withString:targetString];
if you want to change the searchString to the same value everywhere in the source string.
I would go with something like this:
// Setup what you're searching and what you want to find
NSString *string = @"abcabcabcabc";
NSString *toFind = @"abc";
// Initialise the searching range to the whole string
NSRange searchRange = NSMakeRange(0, [string length]);
do {
// Search for next occurrence
NSRange range = [string rangeOfString:toFind options:0 range:searchRange];
if (range.location != NSNotFound) {
// If found, range contains the range of the current iteration
// NOW DO SOMETHING WITH THE STRING / RANGE
// Reset search range for next attempt to start after the current found range
searchRange.location = range.location + range.length;
searchRange.length = [string length] - searchRange.location;
} else {
// If we didn't find it, we have no more occurrences
break;
}
} while (1);
If you want to do changes, you could use:
- (NSString *)stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:(NSString *)target withString:(NSString *)replacement
but if that doesn't fit your needs try this:
- (void)enumerateSubstringsInRange:(NSRange)range options:(NSStringEnumerationOptions)opts usingBlock:(void (^)(NSString *substring, NSRange substringRange, NSRange enclosingRange, BOOL *stop))block
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