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user3115014
user3115014

Reputation: 697

Replace string in ios

In objective-c I want to replace the string "AB\(cd" to "AB\\(cd". This is what I have tried 

NSMutableString * str = @"AB\(cd";
NSString * replace = @"\\(";
[str stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"\("
                                       withString:replace];

NSLog(@"%@",str);

Result is "AB(cd" but I want it as "AB\\\(cd"

Please can somebody help me on this

Upvotes: 2

Views: 8461

Answers (1)

Droppy
Droppy

Reputation: 9721

You forgot to assign the return value from [NSString stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:withString:]:

NSString *replaced = [str stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"\\("
                                                    withString:@"\\\\("];

However if you want to replace the original str then you need to re-assign it with a mutable copy as it's an NSMutableString:

str = [str stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"\\("
                                     withString:@"\\\\("] mutableCopy];

Upvotes: 2

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