How can add more space if NSData < fixed size in Cocoa

Question

I have a problem: I used below codes to get data from NSData , but I want to get data from [0;2048] bytes . If my data > 2048* strong text *, it can run fine but if my data < 2048 , it'll wrong. So that I want to add more some space at last if my data < 2048 to enough 2048 bytes . Can you help me? Thanks so much.

 NSData *data = [NSData dataWithBytes:[arrayText UTF8String] length:[arrayText lengthOfBytesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
 NSData *datawrite = [data subdataWithRange:NSMakeRange(0, 2048)];

Above code is work fine if data > 2048 bytes , if data < 2048 bytes , my MAC app hangs. Please give me any suggestion. Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Ok, this will copy as many bytes as are available (up to 2048) from data . If the result is < 2048 bytes, the new data will be padded to 2048 bytes.

NSMutableData * datawrite = [ data subdataWithRange:(NSRange){ 0, MIN( 2048, data.length ) } ] mutableCopy ] ;
[ datawrite setLength:2048 ] ;

BUT: Can you tell us the broader application? This seems like a strange use case and I'd like to understand more.