Nsdata to nsstring in objective-C

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Hi All,
I know this is suppose to be very straight forward and simple but i have been trying to convert NSData to NSString using Obj-C but the outputs are not what I really wanted.

my NSData variable:

Objective-C

NSData *blockData = [NSData dataWithBytes:&data length:sizeof(data)];

I'm trying to print it in NSLog like below:

NSLog(@"sneding block: %@", blockData);

the output is like:

018-06-13 08:05:18.641965-0400 sendData[3016:1171273] sneding: <0000e992 ffff0300 00884242 4242ffff ffff>

I need the output to be in string or numbers not hex, i have done it in java by converting byte[] array to string: Arrays.toString(byte[]) the output something like: [-24,14,60,103,-119,14,-118,12,-117,13,18,84,81,-118,10,-117,11,-22]

any ideas?
Thanks in advance

What I have tried:

I tried to use NSUTF8StringEncoding

Objective-C

NSString *str = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:blockData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];//returns null

also tried NSASCIIStringEncoding with no luck

Objective-C

[[NSString alloc] initWithData:blockData encoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding];//returns ascii codes

Posted 13-Jun-18 4:00am

Samira Radwan

Updated 13-Jun-18 5:37am

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User 7429338 · Answer 1 · 2018-06-13T05:39:00

Solution 1

You can do it like this:

NSMutableString * str = [NSMutableString string];
for (int i = 0; i<sizeof(data); i++)
{
    [str appendFormat:@"%d ", data[i]];
}

NSLog(@"%@",str);

Posted 13-Jun-18 5:39am

User 7429338

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Samira Radwan 13-Jun-18 13:36pm

Thank you!
this solution works very well when using array of bytes or signed char. but if `data` is of type `NSData` I got error: expected method to read array element not found on object of type NSData. we can't just read data[i] if it's NSData

[no name] 13-Jun-18 13:48pm

If you have an object blockData of type NSData, you can convert it into a byte array data like so:
data = [blockData bytes];

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