Problem with NSString stringByExpandingTildeInPath method

[Alexandre Baldo]

Hi! I just began to study Objective-C and I am not an expert in MAC OS either.

I'm trying to use the stringByExpandingTildeInPath:

NSString *path = @"~";
NSString *longPath = [path stringByExpandingTildeInPath];

NSLog(@"Home Directory is at %@", longPath);

It would be expected for this method to return the String "/Users/baldo" (suppose my user is 'baldo'). But the NSLog just prints '~'.

What I am doing wrong?

Thank you!

[Daniel Abramowicz]

I am having the same problem.

Why doesn't it expand the tide?

[Daniel Abramowicz]

I Can't believe it took HOURS for me to solve this

That's why I hate apple

the problem is that there are apparently 2 different characters for the "~"... one of them is a small tide like the one that appears over the "a" in "ã" and the other one is in the center and bigger, like "~".

[Hussein Baghdadi]

Daniel Abramowicz wrote:I Can't believe it took HOURS for me to solve this

That's why I hate apple

the problem is that there are apparently 2 different characters for the "~"... one of them is a small tide like the one that appears over the "a" in "ã" and the other one is in the center and bigger, like "~".

Where is Apple's fault?

[Daniel Abramowicz]

It`s actually Unix fault...

That's OK since I don't like linux either :P


(only one ~ in windows)