Re: checking for line ending types

FROM : Andrew Farmer
DATE : Sun Nov 28 02:03:08 2004

On 27 Nov 2004, at 15:40, Andrew Merenbach wrote:
> Good day, Hunter.  Your code looks fine, but you should note that the
> method -[NSString cString] will, according too Apple's NSString class
> docs, be 'deprecated in the near future.'  They instead recommend that
> one use 'UTF8String to convert arbitrary NSStrings to a lossless 8-bit
> representation.'


Except that if your input isn't UTF-8, -[NSString UTF8String] may give
you screwed-up results. -[NSString cString] has its place.

> On the other hand, you might not have to deal with C strings at all. 
> If you read the data file into an NSString, you can use -[NSString
> rangeOfString:], as follows, as well as using an enumeration instead
> of checking for chars:


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Looks good to me.