Quick tip: How to convert NSString to NSData?

Pretty simple:

NSString* str = @"some example string";
NSData* data = [str dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];

1 2	NSString* str = @"some example string"; NSData* data = [str dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];

and if you want it back:

NSString* another = [NSString stringWithUTF8String:[data bytes]];

1	NSString* another = [NSString stringWithUTF8String:[data bytes]];

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