Document Revision History

This table describes the changes to String Programming Guide.

DateNotes
2014-02-11

Added information about word boundary delineation and changed section title to "Words, Paragraphs, and Line Breaks."

2013-09-17

Fixed typo in code snippet in "Formatting String Objects" article.

2012-12-13

Clarified description of NSAnchoredSearch option.

2012-07-17

Updated code snippets to adopt new Objective-C features.

2012-06-11

Corrected string constant character set to UTF-8. Added guidance about using localizedStandardCompare: for Finder-like sorting. Added caveat to avoid using %s with RTL languages. Revised "String Format Specifiers" article.

2009-10-15

Added links to Cocoa Core Competencies.

2008-10-15

Added new aricle on character clusters; updated list of string format specifiers.

2007-10-18

Corrected minor typographical errors.

2007-07-10

Added notes regarding NSInteger and NSUInteger to "String Format Specifiers".

2007-03-06

Corrected minor typographical errors.

2007-02-08

Corrected sentence fragments and improved the example in "Scanners."

2006-12-05

Added code samples to illustrate searching and path manipulation.

2006-11-07

Made minor revisions to "Scanners" article.

2006-10-03

Added links to path manipulation methods.

2006-06-28

Corrected typographical errors.

2006-05-23

Added a new article, "Reading Strings From and Writing Strings To Files and URLs"; significantly updated "Creating and Converting Strings."

 

Included “Creating a Character Set” into Character Sets.

2006-01-10

Changed title from "Strings" to conform to reference consistency guidelines.

2004-06-28

Added Formatting String Objects article. Added Data Formatting and the Core Foundation Strings programming topics to the introduction.

2004-02-06

Added information about custom Unicode character sets and retrieved missing code fragments in “Creating a Character Set”. Added information and cross-reference to Drawing Strings. Rewrote introduction and added an index.

2003-09-09

Added NSNumericSearch description to Searching, Comparing, and Sorting Strings.

2003-03-17

Reinstated the sample code that was missing from Scanners.

2003-01-17

Updated Creating and Converting String Objects to recommend the use of UTF8 encoding, and noted the pending deprecation of the cString... methods.

2002-11-12

Revision history was added to existing topic.