Question

I am developing a small app where the user uploads a csv file to the document folder in the app through iTunes. I am using the following code, but it checks only the first column in first row. Its not checking the second rows column. My csv file contains 2 rows and 4 columns each. First column is a number. The user will type this number in a text box and click a button to check whether the number is in csv file. The following function is the one I am using

-(void)CheckEntry //this function checks the example.csv file
{
    NSArray *DocumentPath = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);

    NSString *DocumentDirectory = [DocumentPath objectAtIndex:0];

    NSString *FullPath = [DocumentDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"example.csv"]];

    NSString * pstrCSVFile= [NSString stringWithContentsOfFile:FullPath encoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding error:NULL];

    NSArray * paRowsOfCSVFile= [pstrCSVFile componentsSeparatedByString:@"\r\n"];

    NSArray *paColumnsOfRow;
    NSString *pstrFirstColumn;
    for(NSString * pstrRow in paRowsOfCSVFile)
    {
        paColumnsOfRow= [pstrRow componentsSeparatedByString:@","];
        pstrFirstColumn= [paColumnsOfRow objectAtIndex:0];

        if([pstrFirstColumn localizedCaseInsensitiveCompare:GWIDText.text] == NSOrderedSame)
        {
            NSString *msg = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"The record was found"];
            UIAlertView *alertingFileName = [[UIAlertView alloc]initWithTitle:msg message:msg delegate:nil cancelButtonTitle:@"OK" otherButtonTitles:nil, nil];
            [alertingFileName show];
        }
        else
        {
            NSString *msg = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"Not Found"];
            UIAlertView *alertingFileName = [[UIAlertView alloc]initWithTitle:msg message:msg delegate:nil cancelButtonTitle:@"OK" otherButtonTitles:nil, nil];
            [alertingFileName show];
        }
    }

}

Answer 1

Try using componentsSeparatedByCharactersInSet:[NSCharacterSet newlineCharacterSet] instead of componentsSeparatedByString: and see if that helps.