Question

I have an NSArray, where each object contains a specific class called Card. Card has a description method. I want to join all objects in the array using the output of the description method, separated by spaces. Is there a simple to do this, without manually iterating the NSArray and manipulating NSString?

Something akin to the following made-up code?

NSArray *myArray = getCards(); // fetches 10 items or more
NSString *myString = [myArray joinUsingDescriptionMethodSeparatedBy:@" "];

or

NSString *myString = [NSString stringFromArrayDescriptionMethods:myArray separatedBy:@" "];

Naturally ,I could implement this myself but I suspect there could be something already present that does this.

Answer 1

I don’t think that there is such a method. You can also implement it in a Category for NSString.

Sorry, I found this:

NSString * result = [[array valueForKey:@"description"] componentsJoinedByString:@""];

From the documentation:

Constructs and returns an NSString object that is the result of
interposing a given separator between the elements of the array.

- (NSString *)componentsJoinedByString:(NSString *)separator