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NSString - Searching for a character in a string

Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2004 2:27 pm
by Nat!
I was under the misimpression, that

<b><tt>- (NSRange)rangeOfCharacterFromSet:(NSCharacterSet *)aSet options:(unsigned int)mask</tt></b>

is faster than

<b><tt>- (NSRange)rangeOfString:(NSString *)aString options:(unsigned)mask</tt></b>.

It is not so. At least not on Panther with my G5. In fact <tt>rangeOfString</tt> is faster.