Looks like the attachment didn't come along.  It's up here:  
http://davedelong.com/stuff/stringreverse.png

Dave

On Dec 31, 2008, at 9:29 AM, Dave DeLong wrote:

Ironic... This question came up in a job interview I had a couple weeks ago. The following NSString category will work to reverse a string, and in my limited tests, it works with accents, mathematical symbols, and Korean characters:

- (NSString *) stringByReversingSelf {
        NSMutableString * r = [NSMutableString stringWithString:self];
        NSUInteger len = [r length];
        NSUInteger mid = floor(len/2);
        for(int i = 0; i < mid; i++) {
                NSRange fr = NSMakeRange(i,1);
                NSRange lr = NSMakeRange(len-i-1,1);
                NSString * f = [r substringWithRange:fr];
                NSString * l = [r substringWithRange:lr];
                [r replaceCharactersInRange:fr withString:l];
                [r replaceCharactersInRange:lr withString:f];
        }
        return r;
}

Here's the output of my extremely limited tests: (attached as a .png screenshot so that the encoding doesn't get messed up)



Cheers,

Dave
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