Here's one way to accomplish your stated goal:
-- BEGIN CODE --
#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
int main (int argc, const char * argv[]) {
NSAutoreleasePool * pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];
// NSDateFormatter, locale friendly
NSDateFormatter *df = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[df setDateStyle:NSDateFormatterNoStyle];
[df setTimeStyle:NSDateFormatterShortStyle];
// Get time from date
NSString *timeString = [df stringFromDate:[NSDate date]];
[df release];
CFShow(timeString);
// Abbreviate time: "10:00 AM" to "10:00a"
NSString *abbreviateTimeString = [NSString stringWithString:timeString];
abbreviateTimeString = [timeString
stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@" AM" withString:@"a"];
abbreviateTimeString = [timeString
stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@" PM" withString:@"p"];
CFShow(abbreviateTimeString);
[pool drain];
return 0;
}
-- END CODE --
of course if you are on iOS 4.0 or later, you can play with the new
regex classes and add 30 more lines of code ;-)
Todd Dombrowski
pzlbox, llc
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Alex Kac <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I'm fairly certain my problem here is that I wasn't thinking about unicode
> terms here.
>
> What we are trying to do:
> Shorten the AM/PM to just the first character in Western Languages so that a
> time is shown as "1:30a".
>
> NSDateFormatter* formatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
> NSString* am = [[[formatter AMSymbol] substringToIndex:1]
> lowercaseString];
> NSString* pm = [[[formatter PMSymbol] substringToIndex:1]
> lowercaseString];
>
>
> This works in Western languages just fine. However in languages like Korean
> it does not work giving a random character seemingly. From reading on this
> list over time I believe its because I'm just getting one part of a
> multi-part character (I'm no good with unicode terms sorry).
>
> My guess is I need to use rangeOfComposedCharacterSequenceAtIndex and then
> get the range and use a substring with that range. But I'm not sure since my
> knowledge here is pretty limited. Would love some direction.
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