Question

I’m looking for the best way to check that an NSString contains both numerical and alphabetical characters.
What I have come up with so far is the code below but this just tells me that no characters were entered which aren’t numbers or letters.

if( [[myNSString stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet:
            [NSCharacterSet alphanumericCharacterSet]] isEqualToString:@""]){    
  //The string only contains alpha or numerical characters.
  //But now I want to check that both character sets are present ?    
}

Answer 1

Just trim letterCharacterSet and decimalDigitCharacterSet and check if produced string is not equal to the original string:

if (![[myOriginalString stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet:[NSCharacterSet decimalDigitCharacterSet]] isEqualToString:myOriginalString] 
     && ![[myOriginalString stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet:[NSCharacterSet letterCharacterSet]] isEqualToString:myOriginalString]) {
...
}