iphone Get current year as string

Question

How do I get current year as string in Obj-C ?

Also how do I compare the same using another year value ?

Is it advisable to do a string comparision OR dirctly ye

Answer 1

you can get by following code in objective c

NSDateComponents *components = [[NSCalendar currentCalendar] components:NSCalendarUnitDay | NSCalendarUnitMonth | NSCalendarUnitYear fromDate:[NSDate date]];
int year = [components year];
NSString *strFromyear = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%d",year];