NSCharacterset 和NSString

IOS 官方文档对NSCharacterset 的介绍

An NSCharacterSet object represents a set of Unicode-compliant characters. NSString and NSScanner objects use NSCharacterSet objects to group characters together for searching operations, so that they can find any of a particular set of characters during a search. The cluster’s two public classes, NSCharacterSet and NSMutableCharacterSet, declare the programmatic interface for static and dynamic character sets, respectively.

The objects you create using these classes are referred to as character set objects (and when no confusion will result, merely as character sets). Because of the nature of class clusters, character set objects aren’t actual instances of the NSCharacterSet or NSMutableCharacterSet classes but of one of their private subclasses. Although a character set object’s class is private, its interface is public, as declared by these abstract superclasses, NSCharacterSet and NSMutableCharacterSet. The character set classes adopt the NSCopying and NSMutableCopying protocols, making it convenient to convert a character set of one type to the other.

The NSCharacterSet class declares the programmatic interface for an object that manages a set of Unicode characters (see the NSString class cluster specification for information on Unicode). NSCharacterSet’s principal primitive method, characterIsMember:, provides the basis for all other instance methods in its interface. A subclass of NSCharacterSet needs only to implement this method, plus mutableCopyWithZone:, for proper behavior. For optimal performance, a subclass should also override bitmapRepresentation, which otherwise works by invoking characterIsMember: for every possible Unicode value.

NSCharacterSet is “toll-free bridged” with its Core Foundation counterpart, CFCharacterSetRef. See “Toll-Free Bridging” for more information on toll-free bridging.

The mutable subclass of NSCharacterSet is NSMutableCharacterSet.

我们在nsstring的分割，查找等操作中，经常会提供两种函数，参数类型分别为NSString 和NSCharacterset，有什么不同呢？

NSString 是有序字符串

NSCharacterset是无需字符集合，主要用来判断已知字符串是否包含制定字符集，而不可以用来保存字符串。