NSString:rangeOfString checks whether the given NSString object contains a specified string and returns the starting and ending index of the substring in the NSString object. Following code fragment shows an example of NSString:rangeOfString method.
NSString *str = @"start_prefix mystring ending_suffix";
NSRange range = [str rangeOfString:@"mystring"];
if( range.location != NSNotFound )
{
NSLog(@"The NSString contains a substring: mystring");
}