Question

I am using NSDateComponents a lot in my app. The code is long and I have to do a lot of copy & pasting and when that happens in programming it’s a sign that something can be done better :).
I read the ticked answer for that question and got all excited:

NSDate get year/month/day

(Read the comments)
How can I wrap them on a struct? Sorry if that’s a really beginners question but well… I’m a beginner.
Or is there any other way to deal with that?
Thanks!

Answer 1

You can declare your structure like this:

struct DateParts
{
    NSInteger day;
    NSInteger month;
    NSInteger year;
};

Then assign the parts:

NSDateComponents *components = [[NSCalendar currentCalendar] components:NSDayCalendarUnit | NSMonthCalendarUnit | NSYearCalendarUnit fromDate:[NSDate date]];
DateParts theParts;
theParts.day = [components day];    
theParts.month = [components month];
theParts.year = [components year];