How to convert CFStringRef to NSString?

Question

NSString *aNSString;
CFStringRef aCFString;
aCFString = CFStringCreateWithCString(NULL, [aNSString UTF8String], NSUTF8StringEncoding);
aCFString = CFXMLCreateStringB         


        

Answer 1

I'll add that not only can you go from CFString to NSString with only a type-cast, but it works the other way as well. You can drop the CFStringCreateWithCString message, which is one fewer thing you need to release later. (CF uses Create where Cocoa uses alloc, so either way, you would have needed to release it.)

The resulting code:

NSString *escapedString;
NSString *unescapedString = [(NSString *) CFXMLCreateStringByUnescapingEntities(NULL, (CFStringRef) escapedString, NULL) autorelease];