Question

I have an input string in the format

“Jerry Lane”(angle bracket)[e-mail](bracket closed),”Harry Potter”(angle bracket)[e-mail](bracket closed),”Indiana Jones”,(angle bracket)[e-mail](bracket closed),”Tom Cruise”(angle bracket)[e-mail](bracket closed)

Here, i am supposed to first separate the string on the basis of comma delimiter, which would give me a separate string like

“Jerry Lane”(angle bracket)[e-mail](bracket closed)

Then i need to save extract the string between the <> brackets, which is essentially the string “[e-mail]”. I am using the following code, but it is giving me the following error:

Terminating app due to uncaught exception ‘NSRangeException’, reason: ‘-[__NSCFConstantString substringWithRange:]: Range or index out of bounds’

-(NSArray *)parseString:(NSString *)string
{
  if(string)
  {
    NSArray *myArray = [string componentsSeparatedByString:@","];
    for(NSMutableString *myString in myArray)
    {
        NSRange start,end;
        start = [myString rangeOfString:@"<"];
        end = [myString rangeOfString:@">"];
        if(start.location != NSNotFound && end.location != NSNotFound)
        {
            NSString *emailAddress = [myString substringWithRange:NSMakeRange(start.location,end.location)];
            NSString *name = [myString substringToIndex:start.location];

            NSDictionary *myDictionary = [[NSDictionary alloc] init];
            [myDictionary setValue:emailAddress forKey:@"Dhruvil Vyas"];
            [testArray addObject:myDictionary];

        }
    }
}

return testArray;

}

Answer 1

The arguments that substring takes are the start position and the length

Not the start position and the end position.

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