Replace each word in a string with (the first letter + number of characters between + last letter) - objective-c

Question

I'm using objective-c to parse a sentence here:
NSString *myString = #“Some words to form a string”;
Here is what I have so far:
NSMutableString *firstCharacters = [NSMutableString string];
NSMutableString *lastCharacters = [myString substringFromIndex:[myString length] - 1]
NSArray *arrayOfWords = [myString componentsSeparatedByString:[NSCharacterSet whitespaceCharacterSet]];
for (NSString *word in arrayOfWords) {
if ([word length] > 0) {
NSString *firstLetter = [word substringToIndex:1];
[firstCharacters appendString:lastCharacters];
and then I am really stumped at this point. I want to NSLog the recombined string so that it looks like this:
"S2e w3s to f2m a s3g"

Answer 1

Please try following code :
NSString *myString = #"Some words to form a string";
NSArray *wordsInSentence = [myString componentsSeparatedByString:#" "];
NSMutableArray *expectedResultArray = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
for (NSString *word in wordsInSentence) {
NSString *finalExpectedString = word;
if (word.length > 2) {
NSString *firstLetterInWord = [word substringToIndex:1];
NSString *lastLetterInWord = [word substringFromIndex:[word length] - 1];
finalExpectedString = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"%#%d%#", firstLetterInWord, (int)word.length - 2, lastLetterInWord];
}
[expectedResultArray addObject:finalExpectedString];
}
NSString *printString = [expectedResultArray componentsJoinedByString:#" "];
NSLog(#"Result : %#", printString);