Question

I’m looking a list of countries and their dialing codes available in perhaps a plist file or Objective-C dictionary.

I know there are some lists in PHP like this:
https://gist.github.com/260468
and if it comes to it I’ll port it manually, but that’s error prone.

Answer 1

Quite simple. Open the PHP version in vim, enter one command, and clean up the tags and separator.

:%s/.*= \='\(.*\) (\(+\=.*\))';.*/@"\1" : @"\2",

This is why everyone should learn vim.

(New object literal syntax – requires XCode 4.5/clang 4.1).

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The transformed list, to prevent link rot:

// Country code
NSDictionary *codes = @{
@"Canada"                                       : @"+1",
@"China"                                        : @"+86",
@"France"                                       : @"+33",
@"Germany"                                      : @"+49",
@"India"                                        : @"+91",
@"Japan"                                        : @"+81",
@"Pakistan"                                     : @"+92",
@"United Kingdom"                               : @"+44",
@"United States"                                : @"+1",
@"Abkhazia"                                     : @"+7 840",
@"Abkhazia"                                     : @"+7 940",
@"Afghanistan"                                  : @"+93",
@"Albania"                                      : @"+355",
@"Algeria"                                      : @"+213",
@"American Samoa"                               : @"+1 684",
@"Andorra"                                      : @"+376",
@"Angola"                                       : @"+244",
@"Anguilla"                                     : @"+1 264",
@"Antigua and Barbuda"                          : @"+1 268",
@"Argentina"                                    : @"+54",
@"Armenia"                                      : @"+374",
@"Aruba"                                        : @"+297",
@"Ascension"                                    : @"+247",
@"Australia"                                    : @"+61",
@"Australian External Territories"              : @"+672",
@"Austria"                                      : @"+43",
@"Azerbaijan"                                   : @"+994",
@"Bahamas"                                      : @"+1 242",
@"Bahrain"                                      : @"+973",
@"Bangladesh"                                   : @"+880",
@"Barbados"                                     : @"+1 246",
@"Barbuda"                                      : @"+1 268",
@"Belarus"                                      : @"+375",
@"Belgium"                                      : @"+32",
@"Belize"                                       : @"+501",
@"Benin"                                        : @"+229",
@"Bermuda"                                      : @"+1 441",
@"Bhutan"                                       : @"+975",
@"Bolivia"                                      : @"+591",
@"Bosnia and Herzegovina"                       : @"+387",
@"Botswana"                                     : @"+267",
@"Brazil"                                       : @"+55",
@"British Indian Ocean Territory"               : @"+246",
@"British Virgin Islands"                       : @"+1 284",
@"Brunei"                                       : @"+673",
@"Bulgaria"                                     : @"+359",
@"Burkina Faso"                                 : @"+226",
@"Burundi"                                      : @"+257",
@"Cambodia"                                     : @"+855",
@"Cameroon"                                     : @"+237",
@"Canada"                                       : @"+1",
@"Cape Verde"                                   : @"+238",
@"Cayman Islands"                               : @"+ 345",
@"Central African Republic"                     : @"+236",
@"Chad"                                         : @"+235",
@"Chile"                                        : @"+56",
@"China"                                        : @"+86",
@"Christmas Island"                             : @"+61",
@"Cocos-Keeling Islands"                        : @"+61",
@"Colombia"                                     : @"+57",
@"Comoros"                                      : @"+269",
@"Congo"                                        : @"+242",
@"Congo, Dem. Rep. of (Zaire)"                  : @"+243",
@"Cook Islands"                                 : @"+682",
@"Costa Rica"                                   : @"+506",
@"Ivory Coast"                                  : @"+225",
@"Croatia"                                      : @"+385",
@"Cuba"                                         : @"+53",
@"Curacao"                                      : @"+599",
@"Cyprus"                                       : @"+537",
@"Czech Republic"                               : @"+420",
@"Denmark"                                      : @"+45",
@"Diego Garcia"                                 : @"+246",
@"Djibouti"                                     : @"+253",
@"Dominica"                                     : @"+1 767",
@"Dominican Republic"                           : @"+1 809",
@"Dominican Republic"                           : @"+1 829",
@"Dominican Republic"                           : @"+1 849",
@"East Timor"                                   : @"+670",
@"Easter Island"                                : @"+56",
@"Ecuador"                                      : @"+593",
@"Egypt"                                        : @"+20",
@"El Salvador"                                  : @"+503",
@"Equatorial Guinea"                            : @"+240",
@"Eritrea"                                      : @"+291",
@"Estonia"                                      : @"+372",
@"Ethiopia"                                     : @"+251",
@"Falkland Islands"                             : @"+500",
@"Faroe Islands"                                : @"+298",
@"Fiji"                                         : @"+679",
@"Finland"                                      : @"+358",
@"France"                                       : @"+33",
@"French Antilles"                              : @"+596",
@"French Guiana"                                : @"+594",
@"French Polynesia"                             : @"+689",
@"Gabon"                                        : @"+241",
@"Gambia"                                       : @"+220",
@"Georgia"                                      : @"+995",
@"Germany"                                      : @"+49",
@"Ghana"                                        : @"+233",
@"Gibraltar"                                    : @"+350",
@"Greece"                                       : @"+30",
@"Greenland"                                    : @"+299",
@"Grenada"                                      : @"+1 473",
@"Guadeloupe"                                   : @"+590",
@"Guam"                                         : @"+1 671",
@"Guatemala"                                    : @"+502",
@"Guinea"                                       : @"+224",
@"Guinea-Bissau"                                : @"+245",
@"Guyana"                                       : @"+595",
@"Haiti"                                        : @"+509",
@"Honduras"                                     : @"+504",
@"Hong Kong SAR China"                          : @"+852",
@"Hungary"                                      : @"+36",
@"Iceland"                                      : @"+354",
@"India"                                        : @"+91",
@"Indonesia"                                    : @"+62",
@"Iran"                                         : @"+98",
@"Iraq"                                         : @"+964",
@"Ireland"                                      : @"+353",
@"Israel"                                       : @"+972",
@"Italy"                                        : @"+39",
@"Jamaica"                                      : @"+1 876",
@"Japan"                                        : @"+81",
@"Jordan"                                       : @"+962",
@"Kazakhstan"                                   : @"+7 7",
@"Kenya"                                        : @"+254",
@"Kiribati"                                     : @"+686",
@"North Korea"                                  : @"+850",
@"South Korea"                                  : @"+82",
@"Kuwait"                                       : @"+965",
@"Kyrgyzstan"                                   : @"+996",
@"Laos"                                         : @"+856",
@"Latvia"                                       : @"+371",
@"Lebanon"                                      : @"+961",
@"Lesotho"                                      : @"+266",
@"Liberia"                                      : @"+231",
@"Libya"                                        : @"+218",
@"Liechtenstein"                                : @"+423",
@"Lithuania"                                    : @"+370",
@"Luxembourg"                                   : @"+352",
@"Macau SAR China"                              : @"+853",
@"Macedonia"                                    : @"+389",
@"Madagascar"                                   : @"+261",
@"Malawi"                                       : @"+265",
@"Malaysia"                                     : @"+60",
@"Maldives"                                     : @"+960",
@"Mali"                                         : @"+223",
@"Malta"                                        : @"+356",
@"Marshall Islands"                             : @"+692",
@"Martinique"                                   : @"+596",
@"Mauritania"                                   : @"+222",
@"Mauritius"                                    : @"+230",
@"Mayotte"                                      : @"+262",
@"Mexico"                                       : @"+52",
@"Micronesia"                                   : @"+691",
@"Midway Island"                                : @"+1 808",
@"Micronesia"                                   : @"+691",
@"Moldova"                                      : @"+373",
@"Monaco"                                       : @"+377",
@"Mongolia"                                     : @"+976",
@"Montenegro"                                   : @"+382",
@"Montserrat"                                   : @"+1664",
@"Morocco"                                      : @"+212",
@"Myanmar"                                      : @"+95",
@"Namibia"                                      : @"+264",
@"Nauru"                                        : @"+674",
@"Nepal"                                        : @"+977",
@"Netherlands"                                  : @"+31",
@"Netherlands Antilles"                         : @"+599",
@"Nevis"                                        : @"+1 869",
@"New Caledonia"                                : @"+687",
@"New Zealand"                                  : @"+64",
@"Nicaragua"                                    : @"+505",
@"Niger"                                        : @"+227",
@"Nigeria"                                      : @"+234",
@"Niue"                                         : @"+683",
@"Norfolk Island"                               : @"+672",
@"Northern Mariana Islands"                     : @"+1 670",
@"Norway"                                       : @"+47",
@"Oman"                                         : @"+968",
@"Pakistan"                                     : @"+92",
@"Palau"                                        : @"+680",
@"Palestinian Territory"                        : @"+970",
@"Panama"                                       : @"+507",
@"Papua New Guinea"                             : @"+675",
@"Paraguay"                                     : @"+595",
@"Peru"                                         : @"+51",
@"Philippines"                                  : @"+63",
@"Poland"                                       : @"+48",
@"Portugal"                                     : @"+351",
@"Puerto Rico"                                  : @"+1 787",
@"Puerto Rico"                                  : @"+1 939",
@"Qatar"                                        : @"+974",
@"Reunion"                                      : @"+262",
@"Romania"                                      : @"+40",
@"Russia"                                       : @"+7",
@"Rwanda"                                       : @"+250",
@"Samoa"                                        : @"+685",
@"San Marino"                                   : @"+378",
@"Saudi Arabia"                                 : @"+966",
@"Senegal"                                      : @"+221",
@"Serbia"                                       : @"+381",
@"Seychelles"                                   : @"+248",
@"Sierra Leone"                                 : @"+232",
@"Singapore"                                    : @"+65",
@"Slovakia"                                     : @"+421",
@"Slovenia"                                     : @"+386",
@"Solomon Islands"                              : @"+677",
@"South Africa"                                 : @"+27",
@"South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands" : @"+500",
@"Spain"                                        : @"+34",
@"Sri Lanka"                                    : @"+94",
@"Sudan"                                        : @"+249",
@"Suriname"                                     : @"+597",
@"Swaziland"                                    : @"+268",
@"Sweden"                                       : @"+46",
@"Switzerland"                                  : @"+41",
@"Syria"                                        : @"+963",
@"Taiwan"                                       : @"+886",
@"Tajikistan"                                   : @"+992",
@"Tanzania"                                     : @"+255",
@"Thailand"                                     : @"+66",
@"Timor Leste"                                  : @"+670",
@"Togo"                                         : @"+228",
@"Tokelau"                                      : @"+690",
@"Tonga"                                        : @"+676",
@"Trinidad and Tobago"                          : @"+1 868",
@"Tunisia"                                      : @"+216",
@"Turkey"                                       : @"+90",
@"Turkmenistan"                                 : @"+993",
@"Turks and Caicos Islands"                     : @"+1 649",
@"Tuvalu"                                       : @"+688",
@"Uganda"                                       : @"+256",
@"Ukraine"                                      : @"+380",
@"United Arab Emirates"                         : @"+971",
@"United Kingdom"                               : @"+44",
@"United States"                                : @"+1",
@"Uruguay"                                      : @"+598",
@"U.S. Virgin Islands"                          : @"+1 340",
@"Uzbekistan"                                   : @"+998",
@"Vanuatu"                                      : @"+678",
@"Venezuela"                                    : @"+58",
@"Vietnam"                                      : @"+84",
@"Wake Island"                                  : @"+1 808",
@"Wallis and Futuna"                            : @"+681",
@"Yemen"                                        : @"+967",
@"Zambia"                                       : @"+260",
@"Zanzibar"                                     : @"+255",
@"Zimbabwe"                                     : @"+263"
};