NSData from NSKeyedArchiver to NSString

Question

I\'m trying to convert NSData generated from NSKeyedArchiver to an NSString so that I can pass it around and eventually convert it back to NSData. I have to pass this as a strin

Answer 1

All you should have to do is something like this:

NSData *dataFromString = [[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@", yourString] dataUsingEncoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding];

then to extract the data:

NSString *stringFromData = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:dataFromString encoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding];