Question

If I have this string:

NSString *fileContent = [[NSString alloc] initWithContentsOfFile:groupPath];

…which has this content (from the path):

a, b, c, d,

…how can I populate the array with the above objects??

I tried:

 self.itemArray = [[NSMutableArray alloc]init];

[itemArray initWithObjects:fileContent, nil];

…the aim is to get:

[itemArray initWithObjects:a, b, c, d, nil];

Answer 1

If the string is delimited with ", ", the componentsSeparatedByString: method in NSString is what you want. So you’d have something like:

NSMutableArray* array = [[NSMutableArray alloc] initWithArray:[fileContent componentsSeparatedByString:@", "]];
self.itemArray = array;
[array release];