NSMutableCharacterSet

Inherits From: NSCharacterSet : NSObject

Conforms To: NSCopying, NSMutableCopying NSCoding, NSCopying, NSMutableCopying (NSCharacterSet)

NSObject (NSObject)

Declared In: Foundation/NSCharacterSet.h

Class Description

The NSMutableCharacterSet class declares the programmatic interface to objects that construct mutable descriptions of character sets in the UniCode character encoding. Having constructed such character set descriptions using methods described in the NSCharacterSet class, you can use the methods described here to modify the character sets dynamically.

Adding and Removing Characters

• - (void)addCharactersInRange:(NSRange)aRange Adds to the receiver the Unicode characters whose values are given by aRange.
• - (void)addCharactersInString:(NSString *)aString Adds the characters in aString to those in the receiver.
• - (void)removeCharactersInRange:(NSRange)aRange Removes from the receiver the Unicode characters whose values are given by aRange.
• - (void)removeCharactersInString:(NSString *)aString Removes from the receiver the characters in aString.

• - (void)formIntersectionWithCharacterSet:(NSCharacterSet *)otherSet Modifies the receiver so that it contains only those characters that exist in both the receiver and in otherSet.
• - (void)formUnionWithCharacterSet:(NSCharacterSet *)otherSet Modifies the receiver so that it contains all characters that exist in either the receiver or otherSet, barring duplicates.

• - (void)invert Replaces all of the characters in the receiver with all the characters it didn't previously contain.