Find all locations of substring in NSString (not just first)

Question

There is a substring that occurs in a string several times. I use rangeOfString, but it seems that it can only find the first location. How can I find all the l

Answer 1

You can use rangeOfString:options:range: and set the third argument to be beyond the range of the first occurrence. For example, you can do something like this:

NSRange searchRange = NSMakeRange(0,string.length);
NSRange foundRange;
while (searchRange.location < string.length) {
    searchRange.length = string.length-searchRange.location;
    foundRange = [string rangeOfString:substring options:0 range:searchRange];
    if (foundRange.location != NSNotFound) {
        // found an occurrence of the substring! do stuff here
        searchRange.location = foundRange.location+foundRange.length;
    } else {
        // no more substring to find
        break;
    }
}