Why doesn't NSData have a +[NSData dataWithString:(NSString *)] or -[NSData initWithString:(NSString *)] method? i.e. how do I convert the contents of an NSString object into an NSData object? Why? Because -[NSFileHandle writeData:(NSData *)] takes an NSData object, not an NSString object. Arrrgghhhh. :( Also, how come NSFileHandle doesn't have a -[NSFileHandle readFileWithSeparator:(NSString *)] method so one can read in only chunks of a file (of varying size, such as CSV records, or lines in a text file, separated by \n, as opposed to a fixed size, which could be accomplished with -[NSFileHandle readDataOfLength:(NSUInteger)] instead), instead of having to read in the whole thing? Especially on iOS, where memory space is at a premium! This seems like a major oversight to me... unless maybe there's a class which provides a higher-level of abstraction, such as NSTextFileHandle? Yeah, I can drop down to the C-level fopen(), fread(), fwrite(), fclose() etc... functions, but I'm looking for an OO-way to do this.
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