how to get first three characters of an NSString?

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cgossain picture cgossain · Mar 14, 2011 · Viewed 87k times · Source

How can I return the first three characters of an NSString?

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GameLoading picture GameLoading · Mar 14, 2011 
 mystr=[mystr substringToIndex:3];

Be sure your string has atleast 3 ch.. o.e. it will crash the app.

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