Question

How to get the username value only from the addressbook, when selecting a twitter detail of contact

if ( property == kABPersonSocialProfileProperty) {

        ABMultiValueRef multi = ABRecordCopyValue(person, property);


        for (CFIndex i = 0; i < ABMultiValueGetCount(multi); i++) {

            CFStringRef socialLabel = ABAddressBookCopyLocalizedLabel(ABMultiValueCopyLabelAtIndex(multi, identifier));

            CFStringRef social = ABMultiValueCopyValueAtIndex(multi, i);

            NSDictionary* personaddress =(NSDictionary*) ABMultiValueCopyValueAtIndex(multi, i);        

            NSString*twitterdetails = [personaddress valueForKey:(NSString *)kABPersonSocialProfileServiceTwitter];
            NSLog(@"%@ twitterdetails",twitterdetails);  


            NSString *aString = (NSString *)social;


            NSLog(@"%@ aString",aString);
        }

I am getting the result as below

{
    service = twitter;
    url = "http://twitter.com/manoas2136";
    username = manoas2136;
} aString

please tell me how to get only the username from the above result set

Answer 1

try this code

  NSDictionary* personalDetails = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithDictionary:(NSDictionary*)ABMultiValueCopyValueAtIndex(multi, i)];
  NSString* aString = [personalDetails valueForKey:@"username"];
  NSLog(@"%@ aString",aString);

result manoas2136 aString

you converted the NSDictionary value in to string so it clubbed all result of NSDictionary to NSString so you extract only username by using valueForKey: