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Converting NSString to NSDate (and back again)

I’m still beginner at obj-C/iOS development… I’ve created a class containing a NSDate *date, and I get the data from a XML file. So I want to do something like this :

[myItem setDate:[NSDate dateWithString:xmlDate]];

I get the error :

No known class method for selector ‘dateWithString:’

What is the best way to do it ? Thanks

Answer 1

I would recommend you to use a NSDateFormatter instance for this:

NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
// set the appropriate format in this string
[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"EEE, d MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss Z"];
NSDate *date = [dateFormatter dateFromString:xmlDate];
[dateFormatter release];