CGPoint from a string

[Nabopolassar]

O.K.
I have many CGPoints, all in viewDidLoad like this:

bRookStart = CGPointMake(372, 93);
		bQueenStart = CGPointMake(372, 57);

And I want to be able to use these easily without a lot of if statements... So I looked online and tried lots of things, but nothing worked. The following is probably the closest I got, but my new piece turned up at 0,0 (this is incomplete code, only the important part. The rest all works fine).
The pieceToAdd is a string such as bRook or bQueen.

CGPoint newPoint = CGPointFromString([NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@Start", pieceToAdd]);

myNewPiece.center = newPoint;

any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Shod]

from the documentation:

CGPointFromString
Returns a Core Graphics point structure corresponding to the data in a given string.

CGPoint CGPointFromString (
NSString *string
);
Parameters
string
A string object whose contents are of the form “{x,y}”, where x is the x coordinate and y is the y coordinate. The x and y values can represent integer or float values. An example of a valid string is @”{3.0,2.5}”. The string is not localized, so items are always separated with a comma.
Return Value
A Core Graphics structure that represents a point. If the string is not well-formed, the function returns CGPointZero.

Discussion
In general, you should use this function only to convert strings that were previously created using the NSStringFromCGPoint function.

[Nabopolassar]

Yes, I assumed that was something like that, I only put that up to show I had made some effort. But can you help me? It's probably very simple.

[Nabopolassar]

Or should I just store my points as strings? That may be easiest...

[RLScott]

If I understand what you are trying to do, then you could use a static array of CGPoints. Strings are a messy and inefficient way to store points.

And if all these points are the centers of squares on a chessboard, then the neatest way of all would be to create a function that returned the CGPoint for a given row and column.

[Nabopolassar]

So I would populate "arrayOfStartPoints" with my CGPoints, and then replace pieceToAdd with an integer, and do something along the lines of [arrayOfStartPoints objectAtIndexieceToAdd]?
Thank you, I'll try that.

As for the row/column function, my app isn't exactly a chess game; I just need to have 12 start points from where the player drags the pieces.