Getting the last word of an NSString

Question

As the title suggests, I would like to get the last word out of an NSString. I thought using this code:

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Answer 1

You could use NSString's function rangeOfSubstring:options: to determine it. For example:

Search the string for a space, using a backwards search option to start the search from the end of the string.

NSRange r = [string rangeOfString:@" " options:NSBackwardsSearch];

This will find the location of the last word of the string. Now just get the string using substringWithRange: For Example:

NSRange found = NSMakeRange(NSMaxRange(r), string.length - NSMaxRange(r)); NSString *foundString = [string substringWithRange:found];

Where r is the range from earlier.

Also be careful to make sure that you check r actually exists. If there is only 1 word in the string, then r will be {NSNotFound, 0}

Hope I could help!

Ben