Also can write this:

if([absoluteURL rangeOfString:@"my_substring"].location == NSNotFound)){
NSLog(@”my_substring not found in absoluteURL %@”, absoluteURL);
}

“It’s times like this, that I miss ruby.”

Only times like this?

I love my Mac, I love my iPhone, there are even parts of Cocoa that are nice, but there isn’t a moment I don’t wish that Objective C were just a little bit more like Python or Ruby.

Thanks! I’m an Objective-C and it took a lot of searching around to find out how to do this simple operation! My implementation seems to work the opposite of expectation, however. Strings containing the substring return the integer value of the substring’s location within the string being tested (deviceString) and the non-matches return 0×7fffffff. Given that, you’d thing the following snipped would require != to pass the test. I guess some things are not for man to know . . .

if([deviceString rangeOfString:@"tester"].location == NSNotFound)
[deviceStringArray addObject: deviceString];

well, I don’t understand your Ruby code…searching for a substring is just:

absolute_url[substring] #=> nil or the substring

but you’re absolutely right, the Objective-C APIs are sometimes pathetical…

If we want to be pedantic, perhaps the most idiomatic way to check for substring presence is to use the =~ operator, as in absolute_url =~ /my_regex/ .

Perhaps, instead of complaining about missing a high-level crutch “language” like Ruby, you should just be a real programmer, and write your own regex library in a real low-level language like c… Oh yeah, you can’t.

Dang,

Someone took the corporate programmer route instead of following his dreams of working for himself. What level are you up to there chief?

BTW- I can

Really? That’s how you want to spend your day? Comparing schlongs and rewriting the wheel?

Nice I’m with Christine, reinventing the wheel is definitely not the way to go. As for “real programmers” – good for you

if ( [absoluteURL rangeOfString:@"my_substring"].location == NSNotFound )
{
NSLog(@”my_substring not found”);
}

can someone recommend a good book on web services.  I am not new to iphones but I am new to web services.
Thanks

how to implement soap web service

Hi Folks,
is there any code available  for showing how to upload a file to a Server using Soap?

Hi Folks,
is there any code available  for showing how to upload a file to a Server using Soap?