Really irritating/annoying If statement problem with Strings in subclass

[MattTrout]

I have a really annoying problem with this if statement I am trying to get working. I have subclassed UITableViewCell with a custom cell that I am passing data from XML to methods housed in it.

Basically depending on what String is passed, a different image inside the cell will correspond and this is how I planned on setting it (open to other options/suggestions). From what I read I am writing the if statement 100% correct, but it gets skipped over when ran. Thoughts/comments appreciated! The line calling the method from the subclass and the actual method itself are below....

//Calling the method
[cell setTheImage:[[stories objectAtIndex:storyIndex] objectForKey:@"ImageNames"]];


//Method
-(void)setTheImageNSString *)theImg
{
NSLog(theImg); //This displays the correct data in console so that makes it even more annoying that the if statement isn't working!
if([theImg isEqualToString:@"ImageOne"])
{
NSLog(@"Yes");
}
}

[RLScott]

How do you know that the "if" statement is being skipped over? Have you proved that theImg is, in fact, "ImageOne"? You know, you could just set as breakpoint in Debug at the "if" statement and then, when you hit it, examine theImg in the debugger to see what it is, and then single-step through the "if" statement to see where it goes.

[pofak]

Are you sure there is no while space before or after "ImageOne"?

You may want to chane the NSLog to something like:

NSLog([NSString stringWithFormat:"-%@-", theImg]);

[MattTrout]

Originally Posted by RLScott

How do you know that the "if" statement is being skipped over? Have you proved that theImg is, in fact, "ImageOne"? You know, you could just set as breakpoint in Debug at the "if" statement and then, when you hit it, examine theImg in the debugger to see what it is, and then single-step through the "if" statement to see where it goes.

I actually didn't think to step through it. The debugger does show that it was being evaluated and in the summary column it would show the right string (example ImageOne) but it would have a \n at the end (so ImageOne\n). To test if this was the issue I put @"ImageOne\n" in the if statement and still no luck.

[MattTrout]

Originally Posted by pofak

Are you sure there is no while space before or after "ImageOne"?

You may want to chane the NSLog to something like:

NSLog([NSString stringWithFormat:"-%@-", theImg]);

Positive there are no white spaces...tried it just to see no luck.

[MattTrout]

Originally Posted by MattTrout

I actually didn't think to step through it. The debugger does show that it was being evaluated and in the summary column it would show the right string (example ImageOne) but it would have a \n at the end (so ImageOne\n). To test if this was the issue I put @"ImageOne\n" in the if statement and still no luck.

Update: found a way around what I wanted to do by using compare and doing a switch on the result. Turns out the \n was being included in the string, but if you look at XML doc it's just ImageOne so I have no idea. For some reason though isEqualToString would not work even when I added the \n to the end.