NSString *string = @"hello bla bla";
if ([string rangeOfString:@"bla"].location == NSNotFound) {
NSLog(@"string does not contain bla");
} else {
NSLog(@"string contains bla!");
}
The key is noticing that rangeOfString:
returns an NSRange
struct, and the documentation says that it returns the struct {NSNotFound, 0}
if the “haystack” does not contain the “needle”.
And if you’re on iOS 8 or OS X Yosemite, you can now do: (*NOTE: This WILL crash your app if this code is called on an iOS7 device).
NSString *string = @"hello bla blah";
if ([string containsString:@"bla"]) {
NSLog(@"string contains bla!");
} else {
NSLog(@"string does not contain bla");
}