Objective C - Replacing portion of string in NSString?

Question

I am using the following code to replace a portion of the string, this works for normal characters (alphabetical characters) but when it comes to symbols like "•" it can't replace the character.

Any solution?

[myString stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"•" withString:@"<BULLET_POINT>"];

aryaxt · Accepted Answer · 2011-07-13 18:34:47Z

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You may not be able to literally insert non-ASCII characters like "•" in a source file. Try using the escape \u2022 instead.

myString = [myString stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"\u2022" withString:@"<BULLET_POINT>"];

edited Jul 13, 2011 at 18:34

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aryaxt Over a year ago

It seems like the method "stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString" return a new string with the replacement and it doesn't actually modify the current string

Tommy Over a year ago

@aryaxt: that's right, and is because NSString is an immutable object. If you have an NSMutableString you can use replaceOccurrencesOfString:withString:options:range: instead of stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString....

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