Question

It is strange. I expected that the last NSLog print 3 but it wasn’t

NSString *value = @"0(234)6";

NSRange beginParenthesis = [value rangeOfString:@"("];
NSRange endParenthesis = [value rangeOfString:@")"];

if (beginParenthesis.location != NSNotFound && endParenthesis.location != NSNotFound)
{
    NSLog(@"%ld", endParenthesis.location); // 5
    NSLog(@"%ld", beginParenthesis.location + 1); // 2
    NSLog(@"%ld", endParenthesis.location - beginParenthesis.location + 1); // 5?
}

And I saved beginParenthesis.location + 1 to variable…it worked well I expected…why?

NSRange beginParenthesis = [value rangeOfString:@"("];
NSRange endParenthesis = [value rangeOfString:@")"];

if (beginParenthesis.location != NSNotFound && endParenthesis.location != NSNotFound)
{
    NSInteger start = beginParenthesis.location + 1;
    NSLog(@"%ld", endParenthesis.location); //5
    NSLog(@"%ld", start); // 2
    NSLog(@"%ld", endParenthesis.location - start); // 3
}

What differece between theses?

Answer 1

Maths Problem:

endParenthesis.location – beginParenthesis.location + 1 gives u ( 5 – 1 + 1) i.e equal to5 .
But endParenthesis.location – start gives u 5 – 2 i.e 3.

So you put the parenthesis like this:

 NSLog(@"%ld", endParenthesis.location - (beginParenthesis.location + 1));