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tahoecoop
tahoecoop

Reputation: 378

How to parse a swift string to get out data

I'm using Factual API to obtain information about businesses. For the place hours, I get back a single string:

"{\"monday\":[[\"11:00\",\"23:59\"]],\"friday\":[[\"11:00\",\"23:59\"]],\"sunday\":[[\"00:00\",\"1:00\"],[\"10:00\",\"23:59\"]],\"tuesday\":[[\"11:00\",\"23:59\"]],\"thursday\":[[\"11:00\",\"23:59\"]],\"saturday\":[[\"00:00\",\"1:00\"],[\"10:00\",\"23:59\"]],\"wednesday\":[[\"11:00\",\"23:59\"]]}"

I've tried several things to break this up and I'm banging my head. Any ideas how I can parse this string to be able to get open/close times by day to determine if a place is currently open? Thanks a lot in advance!!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 61

Answers (1)

Aaron Brager
Aaron Brager

Reputation: 66302

You can convert the string to NSData, then to a Dictionary:

let string = "{\"monday\":[[\"11:00\",\"23:59\"]],\"friday\":[[\"11:00\",\"23:59\"]],\"sunday\":[[\"00:00\",\"1:00\"],[\"10:00\",\"23:59\"]],\"tuesday\":[[\"11:00\",\"23:59\"]],\"thursday\":[[\"11:00\",\"23:59\"]],\"saturday\":[[\"00:00\",\"1:00\"],[\"10:00\",\"23:59\"]],\"wednesday\":[[\"11:00\",\"23:59\"]]}"

let data = string.dataUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding)!
let dictionary = try! NSJSONSerialization.JSONObjectWithData(data, options: []) as! [String : AnyObject]

print(dictionary["monday"]![0][0]) //11:00
print(dictionary["monday"]![0][1]) //23:59

Of course, it would be a bit easier to get it as a dictionary in the first place.

Upvotes: 1

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