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Asked: 2026-05-28T05:19:17+00:00

I have a NSData of bytes from where I want to subtract a string.

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I have a NSData of bytes from where I want to subtract a string. The NSData object looks like this

01 00 00 04 40 00 00 00 00 41 41 41 41 48 47 5A 30 65 58 42 4E 4E 45 45 67 41 
41 41 41 41 45 30 30 51 53 42 74 63 44 51 79 61 58 4E 76 62 51 41 41 41 2B 39 
74 62 32 39 32 41 41 41 41 62 47 31 32 61 47 51 41 41 41 41 41 71 67 59 35 79 
36 6F 47 4F 63 73 41 41 4B 78 45 41 41 43 34 41 41 41 42 41 41 41 42 41 41 41 
41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 51 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41

I want to extract everything from the first occurrence of “40 00 00 00” to the first occurrence of “34”

How can I do that?

Thanks

marc

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  1. Editorial Team

    Not sure which bytes you want, here is extracted data in the range between “40 00 00 00” to the first occurrence of “34” and the data with that range removed:

    const NSUInteger dataLength = 130;
unsigned char dataBytes[dataLength] = {
0x01,0x00,0x00,0x04,0x40,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x41,0x41,0x41,0x41,0x48,0x47,0x5A,
0x30,0x65,0x58,0x42,0x4E,0x4E,0x45,0x45,0x67,0x41,0x41,0x41,0x41,0x41,0x45,0x30,
0x30,0x51,0x53,0x42,0x74,0x63,0x44,0x51,0x79,0x61,0x58,0x4E,0x76,0x62,0x51,0x41,
0x41,0x41,0x2B,0x39,0x74,0x62,0x32,0x39,0x32,0x41,0x41,0x41,0x41,0x62,0x47,0x31,
0x32,0x61,0x47,0x51,0x41,0x41,0x41,0x41,0x41,0x71,0x67,0x59,0x35,0x79,0x36,0x6F,
0x47,0x4F,0x63,0x73,0x41,0x41,0x4B,0x78,0x45,0x41,0x41,0x43,0x34,0x41,0x41,0x41,
0x42,0x41,0x41,0x41,0x42,0x41,0x41,0x41,0x41,0x41,0x41,0x41,0x41,0x41,0x41,0x41,
0x41,0x41,0x41,0x41,0x41,0x41,0x51,0x41,0x41,0x41,0x41,0x41,0x41,0x41,0x41,0x41,
0x41,0x41};
NSData *data = [NSData dataWithBytes:dataBytes length:130];

const NSUInteger startBytesLength = 4;
unsigned char startBytes[startBytesLength] = {0x40, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00};
const NSUInteger stopBytesLength = 1;
unsigned char stopBytes[stopBytesLength] = {0x34};


NSData *startData = [NSData dataWithBytes:startBytes length:startBytesLength];
NSData *stopData  = [NSData dataWithBytes:stopBytes  length:stopBytesLength];
NSRange startRange = [data rangeOfData:startData options:0 range:NSMakeRange(0, dataLength)];
NSUInteger start = startRange.location;

NSRange stopRange  = [data rangeOfData:stopData  options:0 range:NSMakeRange(start+startBytesLength, dataLength-(start+startBytesLength))];
NSUInteger length = stopRange.location - start;
NSUInteger stopLocation = stopRange.location+stopBytesLength;

NSData *extractData = [data subdataWithRange:NSMakeRange(start, length)];
NSLog(@"extractData: %@", extractData);

NSMutableData *newData = [NSMutableData data];
[newData appendData:[data subdataWithRange:NSMakeRange(0, start)]];
[newData appendData:[data subdataWithRange:NSMakeRange(stopLocation, dataLength-stopLocation)]];
NSLog(@"newData: %@", newData);

    NSLog output:

    extractData: <00414141 4148475a 30655842 4e4e4545 67414141 41414530
    30515342 74634451 7961584e 76625141 41412b39 74623239 32414141
    41624731 32614751 41414141 41716759 3579366f 474f6373 41414b78
    45414143>

    newData: <01000004 41414142 41414142 41414141 41414141 41414141
    41414141 41514141 41414141 41414141 41>

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