Question

Can any one tell me how to format MSISDN number in xcode IPhone application. I have MSISDN number as “(911-111-1111)”. I need to remove the bracket and “-” between numbers. How can i achieve this.

Thanks

Answer 1

There are many ways to do this (almost all of which can be found by quick examination of the NSString and NSMutableString class references).

If all you want to do is strip characters, I would probably do something like

NSString *newString = [oldString stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"(" withString:@""];
newString = [newString stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@")" withString:@""];
newString = [newString stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"-" withString:@""];

This isn’t the most efficient (or necessarily “elegant”) way to do it, but it has the advantage of being the most readable.