How to convert NSMutableData to NSString on iPhone?

Question

I received an NSMutableData from a server and now I want to convert it to an NSString. Any ideas about how to do this?

score 79 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 27 '09 at 03:22

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You can use the initWithData: initializer:

[[NSString alloc] initWithData:data encoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding];

Change the encoding to that of the source data.

answered Feb 27 '09 at 03:22

codelogic

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If he's getting data from a server he very likely wants NSUTF8StringEncoding instead. – Kendall Helmstetter Gelner Feb 28 '09 at 18:41

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