I am reading a text file from a URL and want to parse the contents of the file into an array. Below is a snippet of the code I am using. I want to be able to place each line of the text into the next row of the array. Is there a way to identify the carriage return/line feed during or after the text has been retrieved?
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:kTextURL];
textView.text = [NSString stringWithContentsOfURL:url encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding error:nil];
When separating by newline characters it's best to use the following procedure:
NSCharacterSet *newlines = [NSCharacterSet newlineCharacterSet];
NSArray *lineComponents = [textFile componentsSeparatedByCharactersInSet:newlines];
This ensures that you get lines separated by either CR, CR+LF, or NEL.
You can use NSString's -componentsSeparatedByString: method, which will return to you an NSArray:
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:kTextURL];
NSString *response = [NSString stringWithContentsOfURL:url encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
textView.text = response;
NSArray *lines = [response componentsSeparatedByString:#"\n"];
//iterate through the lines...
for(NSString *line in lines) {
//do something with line...
}
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I am trying to remove just the last part of the url, Its a FTP URL.
Suppose, I have a URL like: > ftp://ftp.abc.com/public_html/somefolder/. After removing the last portion I should have it as: ftp://ftp.abc.com/public_html/.
I have tried using stringByDeletingLastPathComponenet and URLByDeletingLastPathComponent, but they dont remove the last portion correctly. They change the entire looks of the url.
for instance, after using the above said methods, here is the URL format i get ftp:/ftp.abc.com/public_html/. It removes one "/" in "ftp://", which is crashing my program.
How is it possible to removve just the last part without disturbing the rest of the URL ?
UPDATE:
NSURL * stringUrl = [NSURL URLWithString:string];
NSURL * urlByRemovingLastComponent = [stringUrl URLByDeletingLastPathComponent];
NSLog(#"%#", urlByRemovingLastComponent);
Using above code, I get the output as :- ftp:/ftp.abc.com/public_html/
Hmm. URLByDeletingLastPathComponent works perfectly given the above input.
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:#"ftp://ftp.abc.com/public_html/somefolder/"];
NSLog(#"%#", [url URLByDeletingLastPathComponent]);
returns
ftp://ftp.abc.com/public_html/
Do you have some sample code that is yielding improper results?
Max
Now try
NSString* filePath = #"ftp://ftp.abc.com/public_html/somefolder/.";
NSArray* pathComponents = [filePath pathComponents];
NSLog(#"\n\npath=%#",pathComponents);
if ([pathComponents count] > 2) {
NSArray* lastTwoArray = [pathComponents subarrayWithRange:NSMakeRange([pathComponents count]-2,2)];
NSString* lastTwoPath = [NSString pathWithComponents:lastTwoArray];
NSLog(#"\n\nlastTwoArray=%#",lastTwoPath);
NSArray *listItems = [filePath componentsSeparatedByString:lastTwoPath];
NSLog(#"\n\nlist item 0=%#",[listItems objectAtIndex:0]);
}
output
path=(
"ftp:",
"ftp.abc.com",
"public_html",
somefolder,
"."
)
lastTwoArray =somefolder/.
list item 0 =ftp://ftp.abc.com/public_html/
An example of how to extract the last part of NSURL. In this case the location of the file. Sqlite core data
NSURL *storeURL = [[self applicationDocumentsDirectory] URLByAppendingPathComponent:#"CoreAPI.sqlite"];
NSString *localPath = [storeURL absoluteString];
NSArray* pathComponents = [localPath pathComponents];
NSLog(#"%#",[pathComponents objectAtIndex:6]);
NSString * nombre = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"%#", [pathComponents objectAtIndex:6]];
This code returns me the name of the file CoreAPI.sqlite
for(int i= 0 ;i<[urlsArrray count]; i++)
{
NSString *urlString = [urlsArrray objectAtIndex:i];
NSString *escapedUrlString = [urlString stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:escapedUrlString];
NSString *urlstring1 = [url absoluteString];
NSArray *parts = [urlstring1 componentsSeparatedByString:#"/"];
NSString *fileName = [parts objectAtIndex:[parts count]-1];
NSMutableString *tempString = [NSMutableString stringWithString:fileName];
// [tempString replaceCharactersInRange:[tempString rangeOfString:#"%20"] withString:#" "];
NSLog(#"file name in temp string: %# word name: %#", tempString, wordNameDB);
NSRange match = [tempString rangeOfString:wordNameDB];
if(match.location != NSNotFound)
{
NSLog(#"match found at %u", match.location);
isAvailable = YES;
break;
}
Hi friends, now my problem is i am getting file name from server..., if file name is having any spaces then it replace '%20' ( i.e ex: "hello world" is actual name but i am getting file name like: "hello%20world") .
1. I am not sure all file names having spaces.
2. And also i am not sure a file may have only one space
so first i have to check the file is having spaces or not, if have then i want to replace all "%20" with #" " string. Please give me any suggestions or code snippets.
OR " THERE IA ANY OTHER WAY TO READ FILE NAMES WITHOUT GETTING '%20' IN THE PLACE OF SPACE(#" ")..... thank you
If you have your file name stored in fileName param, you can use the following:
fileName = [fileName stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:#"%20" withString:#" "];
The above code will replace all "%20" with " ". If there are no "%20" in the fileName, you will get back the same string.
Correction:
I was confused with stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding mentioned in code and thought you have already used stringByReplacingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding. If you are not using stringByReplacingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding method, you should use that in this case. The above code is useful, only if that is not able to remove any particular string which you want to replace.
What you need is replacing the escape charcters, according to the encoding.
Use this and all your spaces and other URL encoded characters will be converted to what you need.
[#"yourString" stringByReplacingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
THERE IA ANY OTHER WAY TO READ FILE NAMES WITHOUT GETTING '%20' IN THE PLACE OF SPACE(#" ")
Yes, use this:
NSString *newString = [yourstring stringByReplacingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
Use this to remove spaces ..
urlString = [urlString stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet:[NSCharacterSet whitespaceAndNewlineCharacterSet]];
You seem to already have a valid NSURL object representing the file. Getting the filename from a URL is easy:
...
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:escapedUrlString];
NSString *path = [url path];
NSString *filename = [path lastPathComponent];
No fiddling with unescaping percent escapes, URL parsing, and other error prone stuff.
I have an NSMutable dictionary that contains file IDs and their filename+extension in the simple form of fileone.doc or filetwo.pdf. I need to determine what type of file it is to correctly display a related icon in my UITableView. Here is what I have done so far.
NSString *docInfo = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"%d", indexPath.row]; //Determine what cell we are formatting
NSString *fileType = [contentFiles objectForKey:docInfo]; //Store the file name in a string
I wrote two regex to determine what type of file I'm looking at, but they never return a positive result. I haven't used regex in iOS programming before, so I'm not entirely sure if I'm doing it right, but I basically copied the code from the Class Description page.
NSError *error = NULL;
NSRegularExpression *regexPDF = [NSRegularExpression regularExpressionWithPattern:#"/^.*\\.pdf$/" options:NSRegularExpressionCaseInsensitive error:&error];
NSRegularExpression *regexDOC = [NSRegularExpression regularExpressionWithPattern:#"/^.*\\.(doc|docx)$/" options:NSRegularExpressionCaseInsensitive error:&error];
NSUInteger numMatch = [regexPDF numberOfMatchesInString:fileType options:0 range:NSMakeRange(0, [fileType length])];
NSLog(#"How many matches were found? %#", numMatch);
My questions would be, is there an easier way to do this? If not, are my regex incorrect? And finally if I have to use this, is it costly in run time? I don't know what the average amount of files a user will have will be.
Thank you.
You're looking for [fileType pathExtension]
NSString Documentation: pathExtension
//NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString: fileType];
NSLog(#"extension: %#", [fileType pathExtension]);
Edit you can use pathExtension on NSString
Thanks to David Barry
Try this :
NSString *fileName = #"resume.doc";
NSString *ext = [fileName pathExtension];
Try this, it works for me.
NSString *fileName = #"yourFileName.pdf";
NSString *ext = [fileName pathExtension];
Documentation here for NSString pathExtension
Try using [fileType pathExtension] to get the extension of the file.
In Swift 3 you could use an extension:
extension String {
public func getExtension() -> String? {
let ext = (self as NSString).pathExtension
if ext.isEmpty {
return nil
}
return ext
}
}
I have a text with http:// in NSString. I want to get that http link from the NSString. How can i get the link/url from the string? Eg: 'Stack over flow is very useful link for the beginners https://stackoverflow.com/'. I want to get the 'https://stackoverflow.com/' from the text. How can i do this? Thanks in advance.
I am not sure what you exactly mean by link but if you want to convert your NSString to NSURL than you can do the following:
NSString *urlString = #"http://somepage.com";
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:urlString];
EDIT
This is how to get all URLs in a given NSString:
NSString *str = #"This is a grate website http://xxx.xxx/xxx you must check it out";
NSArray *arrString = [str componentsSeparatedByString:#" "];
for(int i=0; i<arrString.count;i++){
if([[arrString objectAtIndex:i] rangeOfString:#"http://"].location != NSNotFound)
NSLog(#"%#", [arrString objectAtIndex:i]);
}
Rather than splitting the string into an array and messing about that way, you can just search for the substring beginning with #"http://":
NSString *str = #"Stack over flow is very useful link for the beginners http://stackoverflow.com/";
// get the range of the substring starting with #"http://"
NSRange rng = [str rangeOfString:#"http://" options:NSCaseInsensitiveSearch];
// Set up the NSURL variable to hold the created URL
NSURL *newURL = nil;
// Make sure that we actually have found the substring
if (rng.location == NSNotFound) {
NSLog(#"URL not found");
// newURL is initialised to nil already so nothing more to do.
} else {
// Get the substring from the start of the found substring to the end.
NSString *urlString = [str substringFromIndex:rng.location];
// Turn the string into an URL and put it into the declared variable
newURL = [NSURL URLWithString:urlString];
}
try this :
nsstring *str = #"Stack over flow is very useful link for the beginners http://stackoverflow.com/";
nsstring *http = #"http";
nsarray *arrURL = [str componentsSeparatedByString:#"http"];
this will give two objects in the nsarray. 1st object will be having:Stack over flow is very useful link for the beginners and 2nd will be : ://stackoverflow.com/ (i guess)
then you can do like:
NSString *u = [arrURL lastObject];
then do like:
nsstring *http = [http stringByAppendingFormat:#"%#",u];
Quite a lengthy,but i think that would work for you. Hope that helps you.
Google Docs returns a long 3 line string when supplied with credentials. This is the format
SID=stuff...
LSID=stuff...
Auth=long authorization token
if I have it stored in NSString, what is the best function to trim all the way up to the "=" behind Auth, and keep the rest?
NSData *returnedData = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:request returningResponse:theResponse error:NULL];
NSString *newDataString = [[NSString alloc]initWithData:returnedData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSString *authToken = [newDataString ____________];
I figured out the answer on my own through the documentation for NSString:
there is a method called
-(NSArray *)componentsSeparatedByCharactersInSet:(NSCharacterSet *)separator {
that gives back an array of different strings, separated by an NSCharacterSet.
There is a class method of NSCharacterSet called
+(NSCharacterSet *)newLineCharacterSet {
that will split up a string with the newline symbol into pieces, so each line becomes its own object. Here is how it works:
NSData *returnedData = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:request returningResponse:nil error:NULL];
NSString *newDataString = [[NSString alloc]initWithData:returnedData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSCharacterSet *theCharacterSet = [NSCharacterSet newlineCharacterSet];
NSArray *lineArray = [newDataString componentsSeparatedByCharactersInSet:theCharacterSet];
Now, the object lineArray contains different strings, each one is the start of a new line.
You're welcome!
If it is a three-line string, I assume it is split with newline (\n) characters.
NSArray *_authComponents = [threeLineString componentsSeparatedByString:#"\n"];
NSString *_sidToken = [_authComponents objectAtIndex:0]; // "SID=..."
NSString *_lsidToken = [_authComponents objectAtIndex:1]; // "LSID=..."
NSString *_authToken = [_authComponents objectAtIndex:2]; // "Auth=..."
Hopefully that gets you started. Once you have individual components, you can repeat on the equals (=) character, for example.