Question

I know how to get the CFBundleShortVersionString as an NSString:

NSString *version = [[[NSBundle mainBundle] infoDictionary] objectForKey:@"CFBundleShortVersionString"];

how do I get that as an std::string? I want to assign it to a global extern std::string so I’m assuming it should be a copy.

Answer 1

The assignment operator of std::string has been overloaded and can do what you want. Basically you just need to convert the NSString to a char[], and then use the assignment operator to load that char[] into a std::string.

So something like:

std::string versionString = [version UTF8String];