Question

I have got below value(dynamic) from the server:

drwxr-xr-x    9 0        0            4096 Jan 10 05:30 California

Now i want to get valu like this.

drwxr-xr-x
9
0
0
4096
Jan 10
05:30 
California

Please help me for this question

Answer 1

As others have mentioned, you can use NSString's member function componentsSeparatedByString: or componentsSeparatedByCharactersInSet:

As an alternative (for more powerful tokenizing), look into the Objective-C NSScanner class in the foundation framework of Mac OS X.

You could do something like this:

NSString *str = "drwxr-xr-x    9 0  ... ";
NSScanner *scanner = [NSScanner scannerWithString:str];

In order to obtain each token in string form, use NSScanner's scanUpToCharactersFromSet:intoString: member function.

NSString *token = [NSString string];
NSCharacterSet *div = [NSCharacterSet whitespaceCharacterSet];
[scanner scanUpToCharactersFromSet:div intoString:token];
// token now contains @"drwxr-xr-x"

Subsequent calls to the above would return 9, 0, and so on.

Note: the code above has not been tested.