UILabel splitting

Question

if I have a UILabel: label1.text (maximum length 6 character) In this example GARAGE is the word in it.

is it possible to have code that would make

label1a: G
label1b: A
label1c: R
label1d: A
label1e: G
label1f: E

I need this so I can compare every character in a word with every character in a other word.

Been struggling with this for a couple of days now :S

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I got a random word generator that generates word with a length of 6 like 'GARAGE' or 'SAILOR' it generates it into a label for this We'll call the label: 'randomword.text'

now We got a input label where the character display that we put in with our own made keyboard. this label is 'input.text'

now we can compare those 2 labels with if (randomword.text == input.text') { NSLog: @'these words are the same' };

What I want to do is to seperate every letter in random.text: so have label1 say G, label2 say A, label3 say R, label4 say A, label5 say G, label6 say E.

If I separate my input.text in the same way like I did above with random.text I got another 6 UILabel for example have this one separated in label7,8,9,10,11,12. Now I can compare label 1 to label 7, label 2 to 8. etc That way I can see if Letters are on the place they should be even if the entire word do not equal each other.

so basically you wants all characters of label's text, correct? — rishi
yes I want them seperated automaticly so I can compare them but it has to be automatic since the word in label1 is different everytime with a random word generator but I got that all working fine already — Kevin
if you want to split string into characters then you can use - for(int i =0 ;i<[myString length]; i++) { char = [myString characterAtIndex:i]; } — rishi
although it seems to me like you need something else with it also which i am not getting.Can you elaborate some more? — rishi
I don't have code avaiable ATM, since im not at my home. But I have a label1.text with a length of 6, Random words generate into that with a random word generator for example the word GARAGE. now I have another label in what I input words with a length of 6. I want to compare every character in the 2 words to eachother So I want to seperate every character in every word into their own label So I can compare the labels with length 1. I've got the code for doing it with strings but how would I change label1.text into NSString *string1? — Kevin

Kai Huppmann Kai Huppmann · Accepted Answer · 2012-04-24T08:51:00

Still confused by all that stuff about labels. I don't think your question has anything to do with labels, but with comparing strings or parts of them. So if you wan't to check if to strings are equal use

[aString isEqualToString:anotherString]; (not ==).

If you want to extract a letter from a string use

[aString characterAtIndex:i]; or [aString substringWithRange:NSMakeRange(i, i+1)] .

If you want to check if a letter is on a certain position (say i) in a string use:

NSString *aLetter;
[[aString substringWithRange:NSMakeRange(i, i+1)] isEqualToString:aLetter];

or

unichar aLetter;
[aString characterAtIndex:i] == aLetter;

If you want to get 'what's shown on a UILabel' as NSString use aLabel.text .

Hope that helps.

UILabel splitting

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