Question

I looked at the string formatting documents but couldn’t figure out exactly how to do this.

Lets say I have a sting like this

@"(01–05) Operations on the nervous system"

I want to create 2 strings from this like so:

@"01-05" and @"Operations on the nervous system"

How can I do this?

Here are the docs I looked at: http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/Strings/Articles/FormatStrings.html

Answer 1

Give this a shot. It might be off a bit, I havent checked for typos. But you can mess around with it now that you get the idea.

NSString * sourceString = @"(01–05) Operations on the nervous system";

NSString *string1 = [sourceString substringToIndex:6];
string1 = [string1 stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"(" withString:@""];

//string1 = 01-05

NSString *string2 =[sourceString substringFromIndex:7];

//string2 = Operations on the nervous system