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KingPolygon
KingPolygon

Reputation: 4755

iOS: Checking String Prefix Using Switch Case?

I'm currently trying to look at the first two characters of a string, and depending on what they are, I want to do something. There are 6 possibilities: AA, BB, CC, AB, BC, CA.

I tried the following but kept getting the following error:

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NSString *housing = [myArray firstObject];
    switch([housing compare:housing options:@"AA", @"BB", @"CC", @"AB", @"BC", @"CA" range:2]) {

        case 0:
            break;

        case 1:
            break;

        case 2:
            break;

        case 3:
            break;

        case 4:
            break;

        case 5:
            break;

        default:
            break;
    }

Upvotes: 0

Views: 445

Answers (1)

Lyndsey Scott
Lyndsey Scott

Reputation: 37300

(1) The NSString immediately before compare and the NSString immediately after compare are the strings you are comparing to one another, so to compare "housing" to "housing" doesn't make sense.

(2) You're misusing options. options only accepts the following search options -- NSCaseInsensitiveSearch, NSLiteralSearch, NSNumericSearch.

(3) And range needs to be an NSRange, not just a number.

Here's the class reference.

Edit: Just thought up a pretty elegant solution, if I don't say so myself… (It's 3 AM here though, so you should double check the logic to make sure I'm not delirious.)

// Check to see if the first 2 characters of the housing string are in an array of the characters
switch([[@"AA", @"BB", @"CC", @"AB", @"BC", @"CA"] indexOfObject:[housing substringWithRange:NSMakeRange(0, 2)]){

    case 0: // Do something if first 2 characters are AA
    break;

    case 1: // Do something if first 2 characters are BB
    break;

    // etc ...

    default: // Do something if not found
    break;
}

Upvotes: 4

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