NSCharacterSet class reference

Returns a character set containing letters, numbers, and diacritical marks. Note that "letters" includes all alphabetic as well as Chinese characters, etc..

capitalizedLetterCharacterSet

+ (id) capitalizedLetterCharacterSet;

Availability: MacOS-X 10.0.0

Returns a character set containing letters in the unicode Titlecase category.

characterSetWithBitmapRepresentation:

+ (id) characterSetWithBitmapRepresentation: (NSData*)data;

Availability: OpenStep

Returns a character set containing characters as encoded in the data object (8192 bytes)

characterSetWithCharactersInString:

+ (id) characterSetWithCharactersInString: (NSString*)aString;

Availability: OpenStep

Returns set with characters in aString, or empty set for empty string. Raises an exception if given a nil string.

characterSetWithContentsOfFile:

+ (id) characterSetWithContentsOfFile: (NSString*)aFile;

Availability: OPENSTEP 4.0.0 removed at MacOS-X 10.0.0

Initializes from a bitmap (8192 bytes representing 65536 values).
Each bit set in the bitmap represents the fact that a character at that position in the unicode base plane exists in the characterset.
File must have extension " .bitmap ". To get around this load the file into data yourself and use [NSCharacterSet -characterSetWithBitmapRepresentation].

characterSetWithRange:

+ (id) characterSetWithRange: (NSRange)aRange;

Availability: OpenStep

Returns set containing unicode index range given by aRange.

controlCharacterSet

+ (id) controlCharacterSet;

Availability: OpenStep

Returns a character set containing control and format characters.

decimalDigitCharacterSet

+ (id) decimalDigitCharacterSet;

Availability: OpenStep

Returns a character set containing characters that represent the decimal digits 0 through 9.

decomposableCharacterSet

+ (id) decomposableCharacterSet;

Availability: OpenStep

Returns a character set containing individual characters that can be represented also by a composed character sequence.

illegalCharacterSet

+ (id) illegalCharacterSet;

Availability: OpenStep

Returns a character set containing unassigned and explicitly illegal character values.

letterCharacterSet

+ (id) letterCharacterSet;

Availability: OpenStep

Returns a character set containing letters, including all alphabetic as well as Chinese characters, etc..

lowercaseLetterCharacterSet

+ (id) lowercaseLetterCharacterSet;

Availability: OpenStep

Returns a character set that contains the lowercase characters. This set does not include caseless characters, only those that have corresponding characters in uppercase and/or titlecase.

newlineCharacterSet

+ (id) newlineCharacterSet;

Availability: MacOS-X 10.0.0

Returns a character set containing the newline characters, values 0x000A and 0x000D and nextline 0x0085 character.

nonBaseCharacterSet

+ (id) nonBaseCharacterSet;

Availability: OpenStep

Returns a character set containing characters for diacritical marks, which are usually only rendered in conjunction with another character.

punctuationCharacterSet

+ (id) punctuationCharacterSet;

Availability: OpenStep

Returns a character set containing punctuation marks.

symbolCharacterSet

+ (id) symbolCharacterSet;

Availability: MacOS-X 10.0.0

Returns a character set containing mathematical symbols, etc..

uppercaseLetterCharacterSet

+ (id) uppercaseLetterCharacterSet;

Availability: OpenStep

Returns a character set that contains the uppercase characters. This set does not include caseless characters, only those that have corresponding characters in lowercase and/or titlecase.