Question

I have this string:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<NewDataSet>
  <Table>
    <CITY>Jupiter</CITY>
    <STATE>FL</STATE>
    <ZIP>33477</ZIP>
    <AREA_CODE>561</AREA_CODE>
    <TIME_ZONE>E</TIME_ZONE>
  </Table>
</NewDataSet>

I just want to grab the City from it, in this case: Jupiter

I do not want to use an XML parser – is there a simple way to do this?

Answer 1

I recommend looking into using an xml parser but here you go anyway:

NSArray *array = [yourXMLString componentsSeparatedByString:@"CITY"];
NSString *city = [[array objectAtIndex:1] stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet:[NSCharacterSet characterSetWithCharactersInString:@"></"]];