Need formatting help for isEqualToString args

Question

Code sample:

NSString *title = [[NSString alloc]initWithFormat: @"%@", [self.answers valueForKey:idVor]];
NSString *message = [[NSString alloc]initWithFormat: @"%@",nameVor];

NSLog(@"%@", title);
NSLog(@"%@", message);

if([title isEqualToString:message])
    NSLog(@"equal");

The vars title and message never respond to the if statement even though they contain the same string.

I ran NSLogs for these to see what was contained in each string var.
I got the following output:

f[Session started at 2009-09-21 17:27:56 -0500.]
2009-09-21 17:28:00.256 pickerReview[2394:20b] (
    Amedee
)


2009-09-21 17:28:00.257 pickerReview[2394:20b] Amedee

I guess it's not equal because the NSString title var has parentheses around it... Is there a way to format this so that it satisfies the expression in the if statement?

Answer 1

The issue appears to be that you're asking self.answers (an NSArray) for its valueForKey:@"whatever" — this doesn't return a string, but an array made up of the result of asking each object in the array for that key value. NSArray's description method (what gets printed when you NSLog it) is the contents of the array surrounded by parentheses. So you're comparing a string to an array containing a string.