On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Stuart Malin <stu...@zhameesha.com> wrote:
> I acquire a password from a keychain using SecKeychainFindGenericPassword. 
> That provides a non null terminated c string and a length. I had been using 
> [NSString stringWithCString: length:] to get an NSString instance of the 
> password. However, the +stringWithCString:length: method was deprecated way 
> back, so I thought I'd clean up my code and use +stringWithCString:encoding:  
> -- however that doesn't work because the  supplied C string isn't null 
> terminated. I did a bit of searching, and found in the archives on 
> CocoaBuilder [1] someone's solution back in September of 2005, which was to 
> copy the acquired password to a new buffer of 1 additional byte and create a 
> new null terminated C string there:

You could wrap the provided buffer with an NSData and use -[NSString
initWithData:encoding:].

--Kyle Sluder
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