iOS split string [closed]

Question

ex1) a:3:{i:0;s:6:"Apple";i:1;s:4:"Google";}

ex2) a:2:{i:0;s:13:"Area";i:1;s:10:"Place";i:2;s:10:"Location";}

ex3) a:4:{i:0;s:6:"Cool";i:1;s:6:"Nice";i:2;s:6:"Awesome";i:3;s:6:"Wonderful";}

ex4) ...

ex5) ...

this is Answers about our Survey. i received string from server to iPhone. something like that.

a:%d is words count about answer.

i:%d is Index about words. it is increase.

s:%d is length about word.

i don't know what will be word inside double quotation marks. (random)

i understood componentsSeparatedByString. how to get words inside double quotation marks?

Answer 1

[str stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"\"" withString:@""];

This will get rid of the quotes. Combine this with my comment and you've got it all figured out.

NSMutableArray *arrSplitString = [NSMutableArray arrayWithArray:[originalString componentsSeperatedByString:@";"]];
for(int i=0; i<[arrSplitString count]; ++i) {
    arrSplitString[i] = [arrSplitString[i] stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"\"" withString:@""];
}

If the ; isn't the char you need to split on, you'll need to change that to the char you need to split on. If you need to split on multiple delimiters, then you'll want to look at the componentsSeparatedByCharactersInSet method.