I have an NSString, let's say "H,L,K,P" how can I detect a specific character than then a wild-car character... for example, checking for ",*" would return ",L" ",K" and ",P" because they all have the specific "," and then they all have a character after them. Then I want to replace that string with itself plus a "period" appended to it.
So "H,L,K,P" would become "H,L.,K.,P."
Use a regular expression. The search pattern would be:
,(.)
the replacement pattern would be:
,$1.
Sample code:
NSString *string = @"H,L,K,P";
NSRegularExpression *regex = [NSRegularExpression regularExpressionWithPattern:@",(.)"
options:0
error:&error];
NSString *modifiedString = [regex stringByReplacingMatchesInString:string
options:0
range:NSMakeRange(0, [string length])
withTemplate:@",$1."];