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Originally Posted by AndrewSpeaksOut

Here's what I did to remove null items from an NSMutableArray:

for (int i=0; i<[components count]; i++) {
if ([components objectAtIndex:i] == [NSString stringWithFormat:@""]) {
NSLog(@"nil found");
} else {
[muta addObject:[components objectAtIndex:i]];
}
}

Thanks for the help guys!

Hi,

Remember that you can not use == to see if a string is empty. You also can not insert nil/null into an array as it will raise an exception and the program will crash.

So what you can do is something like this:

NSMutableArray *MyArray = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
[MyArray addObject:@"One"];
[MyArray addObject:@""];
[MyArray addObject:@"Three"];

int Counter = 0;
for (Counter = 0; Counter < [MyArray count]; Counter++){
  NSString *ThisString = (NSString*) [MyArray objectAtIndex:Counter];
  if ([ThisString length] == 0){
    [MyArray removeObjectAtIndex:Counter];
    Counter = -1;
    continue;
  }
}
[MyArray release];
MyArray = nil;

I haven't written the above code in XCode. I just wrote it here so it might have some syntax errors but I think you get the idea. Make sure you use [NSString length] instead of what you did. Best of luck.