NSString Library... Anyone know of a helper library for NSString?

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Published on 2010-05-10T07:01:11Z Indexed on 2010/05/10 7:04 UTC
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Coming from a ruby background, I'm wishing NSString had some convenient methods like the following:

[@"John" contains:@"ohn"] => BOOL
[@"1,2,3,4," split:@","] => NSArray

Anyone know of such an NSString helper library?

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