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Edward Butler
Edward Butler

Reputation: 25

Parsing CSV Data Sets from an online API - iOS

My goal is to parse multiple CSV data sets from an online API into an UITableView. Currently, I am looking at the CHCSVParser as an option to achieve this. With the CHCSVParser, it seems that data must be saved into a local file in order to be parsed(correct me if I am wrong). To save the CSV data locally, is it best that I save the data to the Documents directory? Or is there another, more efficient, way of parsing data from an online API? Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 76

Answers (1)

Dan
Dan

Reputation: 1739

You could write a data stream to memory:

NSOutputStream *stream = [[NSOutputStream alloc] initToMemory];
CHCSVWriter *writer = [[CHCSVWriter alloc] initWithOutputStream:stream encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding delimiter:','];
// write fields here
[writer closeStream];
NSData *buffer = [stream propertyForKey:NSStreamDataWrittenToMemoryStreamKey];

Upvotes: 1

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