Programming in Objective-C, Fifth Edition

Common Methods for Working with Paths

Table 16.3 summarizes many of the commonly used methods for working with paths. In this table, components is an NSArray object containing string objects for each component in a path; path is a string object specifying a path to a file; and ext is a string object indicating a path extension (for example, @"mp4").

Table 16.3. Common Path Utility Methods

Table 16.4 presents functions available to obtain information about a user, her home directory, and a directory for storing temporary files.

Table 16.4. Common Path Utility Functions

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