NSString to NSData / NSData to NSString

Mathias Lipowski

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May 13, 2011

Helpful snippets to convert NSString to NSData and NSData to NSString:

NSString to NSData

Objective-C

NSData *myData;
myData = [myString dataUsingEncoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding];

Objective-C

NSString *myStr;
myStr = [[[NSString alloc] initWithData:myData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding] autorelease];