Question

This is bizarre.

Developing for the iPhone I have an NSString:

 distanceFromTargetString = @"6178266.000000"
 // this is not actually code, but a value taken from elsewhere. It is a proper NSString though. 

When I use this

NSArray *listItems = [distanceFromTargetString componentsSeparatedByString:@"."];
distanceFromTargetString = [listItems objectAtIndex:0];

or this

 [distanceFromTarget setText: distanceFromTargetString];

I get something like this

-[NSDecimalNumber isEqualToString:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x1cac40
2011-07-21 14:29:24.226 AssassinBeta[7230:707] *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '-[NSDecimalNumber isEqualToString:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x1cac40'

Any ideas?

Answer 1

You could try :

NSInteger i = [distanceFromTargetString integerValue];
NSString s = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%d", i];
// you got your string