How do I get my NSString from object?

Question

I have some text fields. Eg this one

TTMessageField *field = [fields objectAtIndex:0];

NSLog(@"%S", field.description);
NSLog(@"%@", field);

TTMessageField Class Reference.

The second line prints

To: (
    "recipient"
)

and the third

To: (\n    recipient\n)

I am not sure why but the description does not return the recipient only. It is wrapped by this To:() like you see above.

- (NSString*)description {
  return [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@", _title];
}

Is it possible to extract just the recipient? Something like

NSString *str = field.description;

and then use a regex to get the recipient?

Answer 1

Have you tried using other method name than "description"? In fact -description method is NSObject's method and causes any object to print its values. There might be some kind of overriding interference there, give a try to some other name, "-descriptionString" for instance.

Answer 2

I'll assume that you're using Three20 for this. Try this

TTMessageField *field = [fields objectAtIndex:0];
NSString *myString = [field title];

Answer 3

I could change TTMessageField to TTMessageRecipientField which extends TTMessageField. TTMessageRecipientField has a field recipients which is an NSArray and holds the names of the recipients:

TTMessageRecipientField *field = [fields objectAtIndex:0];
NSArray *recipient = [field recipients];
NSString *str = [recipient objectAtIndex:0];