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If you would like to output the SQL being generated by Core Data, here is the quick steps:

1. Go to Product -> Edit Scheme
2. Choose Run YourAppName.app
3. Add -com.apple.CoreData.SQLDebug 1 to the Arguments Passed On Launch panel

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// Text field delegates
- (BOOL)textField:(UITextField *)textField shouldChangeCharactersInRange:(NSRange)range replacementString:(NSString *)string {
  if ([[textField text] length] + [string length] - range.length > MAX_LENGTH) {
    return NO;
  } else {
    return YES;
  }
}

https://gist.github.com/1175468

Here is code snippet to parse a XML string to Core Data NSDate.

NSString *string = [currentString stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet:
[NSCharacterSet whitespaceAndNewlineCharacterSet]];
NSLocale* usLocale = [[NSLocale alloc]
initWithLocaleIdentifier:@"en-US"];
NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[dateFormatter setLocale:usLocale];
[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"EEE, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss ZZ"];
NSDate *pubDate = [dateFormatter dateFromString:string];