objective c - How to convert NSString to C string?

Question

I know that this question is a possible duplicate, but even after looking at some Google tutorials and questions even on this forum none of them gives me a decent answer about this subject.

I have:

NSString *str = @"text";

And I would like to do something like:

char cstring [512] = str;

(this only shows what I want to do, after looking at Apple's NSString Class Ref I didn't even think about using it).

Up to now I have:

char command [512] = [[NSString stringWithFormat:@"text"] cStringUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];

Still, with that I get errors.

Any solution?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6687808/how-to-convert-nsstring-to-c-string

Answer 1

try const char *command = [str UTF8String];