How to get a single NSString character from an NSString

Question

I want to get a character from somewhere inside an NSString. I want the result to be an NSString.

This is the code I use to get a single character at index it:

Answer 1

If you just want to get one character from an a NSString, you can try this.

- (unichar)characterAtIndex:(NSUInteger)index;

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Used like so:

NSString *originalString = @"hello";
int index = 2;
NSString *theCharacter = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%c", [originalString characterAtIndex:index-1]];
//returns "e".