How to divide a string to a charecter wise?

I am having a string @"sairam". I need a characters separately and i need to st开发者_开发百科ore it into an ARRAY like

array = [@"s",@"a",@"i",@"r",@"a",@"m"];

how to do this give a loop like if i give a string it needs to divide charecters and store it into an array ...

thanks in advance...

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From http://www.idev101.com/code/Objective-C/Strings/split.html:

  NSMutableArray *characters = [[NSMutableArray alloc] initWithCapacity:[myString length]];
  for (int i=0; i < [myString length]; i++) {
      NSString *ichar  = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%c", [myString characterAtIndex:i]];
      [characters addObject:ichar];
  }

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It can be done in following way: Steps : 1. First convert the NSString to cString using cStringUsingEncoding. 2. Then iterate the cString and convert back each char to NSString if you require.

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    for (int i=0; i<[passonString length]; i++) 
    {

            unichar tempString=[passon_phoneNumber characterAtIndex:i];
           [array addObject:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%c",tempString];
}

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unichar c[string.length];
    char b;
    NSRange range={0,string.length};
    [<string> getCharacters:c range:range];
    printf("%c%c",c[0],c[1]);

i used this myself as it gave me a manageable character array you can see this link as well you can creatively use this character array as u wish