Question

I have an NSURLRequest being made that to a server that returns a string.

string = [[NSMutableString alloc] initWithData:receivedData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];

receivedData is the mutable array that the downloaded data is stored in. Everything works fine.

I have now, however, added another value to that string. An example of the returned string would be 14587728000000 , 376.99. Originally it was one value so I didn’t have to do any splicing. But, now that I have another value, I want to be able to separate it into two different strings.

What should I do to separate the two values into different string? Some kind of search that goes till the first space, or something like that. I have access to the server, and the string is generated in PHP so the separator can be anything.

Answer 1

You can do this with the NSString componentsSeparatedByString method:

NSString *string = @"14587728000000,376.99";
NSArray *chunks = [string componentsSeparatedByString: @","];

You can find some other common NSString tricks (where I found this one) here.