NSString newbie question about setting a char from it.

Question

Ok, I know this is a very basic question, but my head is swimming in NSString vs C string nonsense.

Basically I have a NSString the just contain 1 character for example the letter D

How do I take that 1 character NSString and assign it to a variable of char

So I have...

char mychar;
NSString *myMode = [[NSString alloc] initWithFormat:@"%@",[array objectAtIndex:0]];
//myMode ends up hold the letter D.   How do I get it into mychar??

Thanks for any help.

Answer 1

Use characterAtIndex:. However, this returns a Unicode character (unichar). If you know that the character is definitely ASCII, you can safely cast it to a char:

char theChar = (char)[myString characterAtIndex:0];