• String Objects

• Understanding characters

• Interpreting UTF-16-encoded data

• Distributed objects

• Subclassing Notes

• Methods to Override

• Alternatives to Subclassing

• Creating and Initializing Strings

• Creating and Initializing a String from a File

• Creating and Initializing a String from an URL

• Writing to a File or URL

• Getting a String’s Length

• Getting Characters and Bytes

• Getting C Strings

• Combining Strings

• Dividing Strings

• Finding Characters and Substrings

• Replacing Substrings

• Determining Line and Paragraph Ranges

• Determining Composed Character Sequences

• Converting String Contents Into a Property List

• Identifying and Comparing Strings

• Folding Strings

• Getting a Shared Prefix

• Changing Case

• Getting Strings with Mapping

• Getting Numeric Values

• Working with Encodings

• Working with Paths

• Working with URLs

• availableStringEncodings

• defaultCStringEncoding

• localizedNameOfStringEncoding:

• localizedStringWithFormat:

• pathWithComponents:

• string

• stringWithCharacters:length:

• stringWithContentsOfFile:encoding:error:

• stringWithContentsOfFile:usedEncoding:error:

• stringWithContentsOfURL:encoding:error:

• stringWithContentsOfURL:usedEncoding:error:

• stringWithCString:encoding:

• stringWithFormat:

• stringWithString:

• stringWithUTF8String:

• boolValue

• canBeConvertedToEncoding:

• capitalizedString

• caseInsensitiveCompare:

• characterAtIndex:

• commonPrefixWithString:options:

• compare:

• compare:options:

• compare:options:range:

• compare:options:range:locale:

• completePathIntoString:caseSensitive:matchesIntoArray:filterTypes:

• componentsSeparatedByCharactersInSet:

• componentsSeparatedByString:

• cStringUsingEncoding:

• dataUsingEncoding:

• dataUsingEncoding:allowLossyConversion:

• decomposedStringWithCanonicalMapping

• decomposedStringWithCompatibilityMapping

• description

• doubleValue

• fastestEncoding

• fileSystemRepresentation

• floatValue

• getBytes:maxLength:usedLength:encoding:options:range:remainingRange:

• getCharacters:

• getCharacters:range:

• getCString:maxLength:encoding:

• getFileSystemRepresentation:maxLength:

• getLineStart:end:contentsEnd:forRange:

• getParagraphStart:end:contentsEnd:forRange:

• hash

• hasPrefix:

• hasSuffix:

• init

• initWithBytes:length:encoding:

• initWithBytesNoCopy:length:encoding:freeWhenDone:

• initWithCharacters:length:

• initWithCharactersNoCopy:length:freeWhenDone:

• initWithContentsOfFile:encoding:error:

• initWithContentsOfFile:usedEncoding:error:

• initWithContentsOfURL:encoding:error:

• initWithContentsOfURL:usedEncoding:error:

• initWithCString:encoding:

• initWithData:encoding:

• initWithFormat:

• initWithFormat:arguments:

• initWithFormat:locale:

• initWithFormat:locale:arguments:

• initWithString:

• initWithUTF8String:

• integerValue

• intValue

• isAbsolutePath

• isEqualToString:

• lastPathComponent

• length

• lengthOfBytesUsingEncoding:

• lineRangeForRange:

• localizedCaseInsensitiveCompare:

• localizedCompare:

• longLongValue

• lowercaseString

• maximumLengthOfBytesUsingEncoding:

• paragraphRangeForRange:

• pathComponents

• pathExtension

• precomposedStringWithCanonicalMapping

• precomposedStringWithCompatibilityMapping

• propertyList

• propertyListFromStringsFileFormat

• rangeOfCharacterFromSet:

• rangeOfCharacterFromSet:options:

• rangeOfCharacterFromSet:options:range:

• rangeOfComposedCharacterSequenceAtIndex:

• rangeOfComposedCharacterSequencesForRange:

• rangeOfString:

• rangeOfString:options:

• rangeOfString:options:range:

• rangeOfString:options:range:locale:

• smallestEncoding

• stringByAbbreviatingWithTildeInPath

• stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:

• stringByAppendingFormat:

• stringByAppendingPathComponent:

• stringByAppendingPathExtension:

• stringByAppendingString:

• stringByDeletingLastPathComponent

• stringByDeletingPathExtension

• stringByExpandingTildeInPath

• stringByFoldingWithOptions:locale:

• stringByPaddingToLength:withString:startingAtIndex:

• stringByReplacingCharactersInRange:withString:

• stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:withString:

• stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:withString:options:range:

• stringByReplacingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:

• stringByResolvingSymlinksInPath

• stringByStandardizingPath

• stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet:

• stringsByAppendingPaths:

• substringFromIndex:

• substringToIndex:

• substringWithRange:

• uppercaseString

• UTF8String

• writeToFile:atomically:encoding:error:

• writeToURL:atomically:encoding:error:

• unichar

• NSMaximumStringLength

• NSStringCompareOptions

• Search and Comparison Options

• NSStringEncodingConversionOptions

• Encoding Conversion Options

• NSString Handling Exception Names

• NSStringEncoding

• String Encodings

• Deprecated in Mac OS X v10.4

• stringWithContentsOfFile:

• stringWithContentsOfURL:

• stringWithCString:

• stringWithCString:length:

• cString

• cStringLength

• getCString:

• getCString:maxLength:

• getCString:maxLength:range:remainingRange:

• initWithContentsOfFile:

• initWithContentsOfURL:

• initWithCString:

• initWithCString:length:

• initWithCStringNoCopy:length:freeWhenDone:

• lossyCString

• writeToFile:atomically:

• writeToURL:atomically: