Recently I was shocked by the fact that two NSStrings that resemble each other on NSLog may be different. It is because sometimes NSString can contain a zero width space character. Be aware of that and consider:
#define ZERO_WIDTH_SPACE_STRING @"\u200B"
To conquer this you should clean your string from zero width white space characters before comparing:
NSMutableString *eMailToAdd = [NSMutableString string];
NSMutableCharacterSet *charSet = \
[[NSCharacterSet whitespaceCharacterSet] mutableCopy];
//[charSet formUnionWithCharacterSet:\
[NSCharacterSet punctuationCharacterSet]];
NSString *rawStr = [[tokenField textField] text];
for (int i = 0; i < [rawStr length]; i++)
{
if (![charSet characterIsMember:\
[rawStr characterAtIndex:i]])
{
[eMailToAdd appendFormat:\
@"%@",[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%c",\
[rawStr characterAtIndex:i]]];
}
}