gistfile1.m

@interface NSString (Extension)

- (BOOL) isAnEmail;
- (BOOL) isNumeric;

@end

@implementation NSString (Extension)

/**
 *  Determines if the current string is a valid email address.
 *
 *  @return BOOL - True if the string is a valid email address.
 */
- (BOOL) isAnEmail
{
    NSString *emailRegex = @"[A-Z0-9a-z._%+-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\\.[A-Za-z]{2,4}";
    NSPredicate *emailTest = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"SELF MATCHES %@", emailRegex];
    
    return [emailTest evaluateWithObject:self];
}

/**
 *  Determines if the current NSString is numeric or not. It also accounts for the localised (Germany for example use "," instead of ".") decimal point and includes these as a valid number.
 *
 *  @return BOOL - True if the string is numeric.
 */
- (BOOL) isNumeric
{
    NSString *localDecimalSymbol = [[NSLocale currentLocale] objectForKey:NSLocaleDecimalSeparator];
    NSMutableCharacterSet *decimalCharacterSet = [NSMutableCharacterSet characterSetWithCharactersInString:localDecimalSymbol];
    [decimalCharacterSet formUnionWithCharacterSet:[NSCharacterSet alphanumericCharacterSet]];
    
    NSCharacterSet* nonNumbers = [decimalCharacterSet invertedSet];
    NSRange r = [self rangeOfCharacterFromSet: nonNumbers];
    
    if (r.location == NSNotFound)
    {
        // check to see how many times the decimal symbol appears in the string. It should only appear once for the number to be numeric.
        int numberOfOccurances = [[self componentsSeparatedByString:localDecimalSymbol] count]-1;
        return (numberOfOccurances > 1) ? NO : YES;
    }
    else return NO;
}

@end