rangeOfString method call causing unrecognized selector error

Question

I am accessing the address book contacts, and then running a for loop on all of the contacts. The loop's main purpose is to access the First Name and Phone Number values of the user's address book contacts and place those values into NSString objects.

All of the above works perfectly. My problem is that I need to execute specific code if the phone number data contains this string: _$!<Mobile>!$_

So I setup a rangeOfString method call on the object that contains the phone number data and this is causing problems.

Here is what prints to the console once I added the rangeOfString method call to my code:

2014-01-18 12:10:49.190 PhotoTest1[1244:60b] -[__NSCFType rangeOfString:]: unrecognized     selector sent to instance 0x14e9ac90
2014-01-18 12:10:49.193 PhotoTest1[1244:60b] *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception     'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '-[__NSCFType rangeOfString:]: unrecognized selector    sent to instance 0x14e9ac90'
*** First throw call stack:
(0x2f8f6f4b 0x39d376af 0x2f8fa8e7 0x2f8f91cb 0x2f8fa478 0x55e29 0x3206e37b 0x3206e139     0x32117e27 0x3215449b 0x32152dd3 0x32151e25 0x3232dcb3 0x3209e713 0x3209e6b3 0x3209e691    0x3208a11f 0x3209e107 0x3209ddd9 0x32098e65 0x3206e79d 0x3206cfa3 0x2f8c2183 0x2f8c1653 0x2f8bfe47 0x2f82ac27 0x2f82aa0b 0x34551283 0x320ce049 0x54495 0x3a23fab7)
libc++abi.dylib: terminating with uncaught exception of type NSException

And here is all of my code starting with the for loop. The error prints to the console as soon as it gets to "if([phoneNumber rangeOfString:@"+"].location == NSNotFound)":

for (i = 0; i < [allContacts count]; i++)
    {


        Person *person = [[Person alloc] init];

        ABRecordRef contactPerson = (__bridge ABRecordRef)allContacts[i];
        NSString *firstName = (__bridge_transfer NSString
                                *)ABRecordCopyValue(contactPerson, kABPersonFirstNameProperty);
        NSString *phoneNumber = (__bridge_transfer NSString *)ABRecordCopyValue(contactPerson, kABPersonPhoneProperty);


        person.firstName = firstName;

        person.phoneNumber = phoneNumber;

        NSLog(@"%@", phoneNumber);

        //MOBILE PHONE PSEUDOCODE STARTS HERE

        // If the value of phoneNumber contains the text “_$!<Mobile>!$_” , then we want to grab a substring out of it.

        if([phoneNumber rangeOfString:@"_$!<Mobile>!$_"].location == NSNotFound) {

            NSLog(@"Not a mobile phone number");

        } else {

            NSLog(@"It is a mobile phone number");

            // If the value of phoneNumber contains a “+”, then grab the substring that starts with the + and then the next additional 10 spaces and place the substring in the mobilePhoneNumber object. (Which will grab the + sign and the 10 digit phone number. )

            if([phoneNumber rangeOfString:@"+"].location == NSNotFound) {


                NSLog(@"Phone number does not start with a +");


            } else {

                NSLog(@"Phone number does start with a +");

                NSString *subString = [phoneNumber substringWithRange: NSMakeRange(0, [phoneNumber rangeOfString: @"+"].location)];

                NSLog(@"%@", subString);

            }

        }

        //PFQUERY CODE TESTING!!!

}   
}

}

Thanks for the help.

Answer 1

The phone Number is no string . it is defined as a multival as there can be 0..x numbers there.

you can't just treat it as a string . you need to enumerate through the multival\

e.g. to get the first of ANY kind

    ABMultiValueRef phoneEntries = ABRecordCopyValue(person, kABPersonPhoneProperty);       
    NSMutableArray *numbers = [NSMutableArray array)];
    for(int i = 0; i < ABMultiValueGetCount(phoneEntries); i++) {
         NSString *number = (__bridge_transfer NSString*)ABMultiValueCopyValueAtIndex(phoneEntries, i))];
         // Do what you want with the number
         [numbers addObject:number];
    }
    CFRelease(phoneEntries);