Re: How do I make a NSString from a buffer?

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Monday, April 14, 2003, at 12:06  pm, Peter Karlsson wrote:

> Dear list!
>
> I allocate a memory buffer like this:
>
> int len;
> len = [myData length];
> unsigned char *aBuffer;
> aBuffer = malloc(len);
>
> This buffer is 1000 bytes in length. I want to make a NSString with 
> the contents of the first 6 bytes in aBuffer. How do I do that?

Depends on what is in the buffer.
If it's three unicode characters ... myString = [[NSString alloc] 
initWithCharacters: aBuffer length: 3];
If it's 6 bytes in the default character encoding ... myString = 
[[NSString alloc] initWithCString: aBuffer length: 6];
Both will copy the first six bytes from aBuffer into the string.