[KraziKid]

I am trying to do something with the Adium source, and came across this problem, that I cannot figure out. How can I typecast the ASCII code for a character in to a string (or character, or even a character array)? In C++, I could typecast it as (char)ASCII_Number, but in Objective-C, it doesn't seem to be doing it the same way.

To elaborate on what I am doing, I am trying to get Adium to recognize what a tab is, and I have tried both typecasting, and saying "\t" and '\t' and non if it works.

[Brass]

Check the NSString method "stringWithCharacters:". Does this do what you require?

Otherwise, you should be able to type cast to a C string in the same way as in C (because Objective-C is merely an extension to C), and then use the NSString methos "stringWithCString:".

[KraziKid]

Originally posted by Brass:
Check the NSString method "stringWithCharacters:". Does this do what you require?

Otherwise, you should be able to type cast to a C string in the same way as in C (because Objective-C is merely an extension to C), and then use the NSString methos "stringWithCString:".

Thanks for that help. Right now, I have this code:
unichar chr[2];
chr[0]=011;
chr[1]=nil;
NSString *tabChar=[NSString stringWithCharacters:&chr length:1];

Is there any way to consolidate that in to one line? This does what I want, but I would prefer if I could get it down in to one line.

[cheerios]

why not do this?

Code:
NSString *tab = @"\t";

[KraziKid]

Originally posted by cheerios:
why not do this?

Code:
NSString *tab = @"\t";

I have tried that, and it does not do what I require. I have no idea why, but it just does not.

[Brass]

Originally posted by KraziKid:
Thanks for that help. Right now, I have this code:
unichar chr[2];
chr[0]=011;
chr[1]=nil;
NSString *tabChar=[NSString stringWithCharacters:&chr length:1];

Is there any way to consolidate that in to one line? This does what I want, but I would prefer if I could get it down in to one line.

Here's how I make an NSString from a unicode fraction character (all in one line):

NSString *threeQuarters = [NSString stringWithCharacters:(unichar *)"\x00\xbe" length:1];

However, if you're using plain ASCII characters, it's probably easier to simply do this:

NSString *theString = [NSString stringWithCString:"blahblahblah"];

[KraziKid]

Well, thanks for all the help. I ended up doing this in one line using this:
[NSString stringWithCString:"\t"]

For some reason, originally \t wasn't working, but when I did it using that method, it seemed to work now.