[titan44]

I'm having a few problems converting a NSString to a NSData type.

doing NSData = NSString;, does the job, but generated a warning "assignment from distinct Objective - c type", but dumping to NSLog shows the output look to be correct. I've tried using various withEncoding types but end up with rubbish, the NSSting contains a file name with extension i need to write to.

Any ideas on the best way to accomplish this?

[Brass]

NSData *dataObject = [aString dataUsingEncoding:NSUnicodeStringEncoding];

(or substitute any of the list below for "NSUnicodeStringEncoding" depending on the encoding of your string)

Is this what you've tried?

Other encoding types (from the documentation)

enum {
NSASCIIStringEncoding = 1,
NSNEXTSTEPStringEncoding = 2,
NSJapaneseEUCStringEncoding = 3,
NSUTF8StringEncoding = 4,
NSISOLatin1StringEncoding = 5,
NSSymbolStringEncoding = 6,
NSNonLossyASCIIStringEncoding = 7,
NSShiftJISStringEncoding = 8,
NSISOLatin2StringEncoding = 9,
NSUnicodeStringEncoding = 10,
NSWindowsCP1251StringEncoding = 11,
NSWindowsCP1252StringEncoding = 12,
NSWindowsCP1253StringEncoding = 13,
NSWindowsCP1254StringEncoding = 14,
NSWindowsCP1250StringEncoding = 15,
NSISO2022JPStringEncoding = 21,
NSMacOSRomanStringEncoding = 30,
NSProprietaryStringEncoding = 65536
};

[Wevah]

but dumping to NSLog shows the output look to be correct

The only reason this "works" is that it's still an NSString, not an NSData object.

[titan44]

AHH, o.k thanks guys, i'll give that a shot