Question

I’m using contentsOfDirectoryAtURL to get a listing of a particular directory. Is there a simple way to get just the directory names, rather than the full path?

For example, instead of:

file://localhost/var/mobile/Applications/.../Documents/MySavedFiles/1872399DDF
file://localhost/var/mobile/Applications/.../Documents/MySavedFiles/3431109ABE

I want just

1872399DDF
3431109ABE

Thanks.

Answer 1

First convert the NSURLs into NSStrings, and then you can extract the directory name.

Some very useful methods for NSString are lastPathComponent and stringByDeletingPathExtension

NSMutableArray* directoryNames = [NSMutableArray array];

NSArray* fullPaths = [[NSFileManager defaultManager] contentsOfDirectoryAtURL:...];

for (NSURL* url in fullPaths)
{
     [directoryNames addObject:[[url absoluteString] lastPathComponent]];
}