How to check whether a string contains white space

Question

How to check whether a string contains whitespaces in between characters?

Answer 1

You can also follow these steps:

NSArray *componentsSeparatedByWhiteSpace = [testString componentsSeparatedByString:@" "];

If there is any whitespace in your string, then it will separate those and store different components in the array. Now you need to take the count of array. If count is greater than 1, it means there are two components, i.e, presence of white space.

if([componentsSeparatedByWhiteSpace count] > 1){
    NSLog(@"Found whitespace");
}

Answer 2

use rangeOfCharactersFromSet:

NSString *foo = @"HALLO WELT";
NSRange whiteSpaceRange = [foo rangeOfCharacterFromSet:[NSCharacterSet whitespaceCharacterSet]];
if (whiteSpaceRange.location != NSNotFound) {
    NSLog(@"Found whitespace");
}

note: this will also find whitespace at the beginning or end of the string. If you don't want this trim the string first...

NSString *trimmedString = [foo stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet:[NSCharacterSet whitespaceCharacterSet]];
NSRange whiteSpaceRange = [trimmedString rangeOfCharacterFromSet:[NSCharacterSet whitespaceCharacterSet]];