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Though NSDateFormatter behaves slightly different than documented, the following might even be correct, as strange as it might look (mind the last two lines): -(void)testNSDateFormatterTrap { NSDateFormatter *lower = [[[NSDateFormatter alloc] init] autorelease]; lower.dateFormat = @"yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:SS ZZZ";   NSDateFormatter *upper = [[[NSDateFormatter alloc] init] autorelease]; upper.dateFormat = @"YYYY-MM-dd HH:mm:SS ZZZ";   lower.timeZone = upper.timeZone [...]

Strange enough there’s no regular expression class in the iPhone SDK. Update: iOS 4 brings NSRegularExpression. My simple wrapper around the regex.h C API is not safe for unicode matching patterns but does the job e.g. for parsing URLs. If you need more, have a look at RegexKitLite. My simple wrapper has the interface: Strange [...]

Did you ever wonder why Apple’s own Demo App URLCache doesn’t use the NSURLCache class, but rather reimplements disk caching instead? Well, it looks like NSURLCache promises disk-caching, but doesn’t keep this promise. Did you ever wonder why Apple’s own Demo App URLCache doesn’t use the NSURLCache class, but rather reimplements disk caching instead? Well, [...]