Viewing NSData contents in Xcode

Question

I am running Xcode and I would like to dump out a NSData*. The variable in question is buffer. Is there a way to do this through the UI or the GDB debugger?

Answer 1

The easiest way for me (during local development only!) is to convert to unused NSString instances. Then the values show right up in the debugger. Once I'm finished, I nuke those lines of code.

From this old thread

NSString* newStr = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:theData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];