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Andrew Davis
Andrew Davis

Reputation: 2310

Extracting a value from a HTML file as an NSString

I'm creating a currency converter and using the Google Finance API to do so.

I'm following these simple instructions.

The URL outputs a page that looks something like this:

{lhs: "100 Euros",rhs: "132.240437 Australian dollars",error: "",icc: true}

My question is, what is the best way to extract the outputted value (132.240437) as a string?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 198

Answers (2)

OdNairy
OdNairy

Reputation: 540

The simplest way is to use RegEx (e.g. RegexKit Lite). For this task you'll need:

[respStr stringByMatching:@".*rhs: \"([0-9\-\.]*)" capture:1L];

Upvotes: 1

Mundi
Mundi

Reputation: 80265

Get a simple JSON parser like this one. Then

#include "JSON.h"

After getting your JSON string called, say, download from the API:

NSDictionary *currencyData = [download JSONValue];
NSString *numberString = [currencyData objectForKey:@"rhs"];
numberString = [[numberString componentsSeparatedByString:@" "] objectAtIndex:0];

Upvotes: 0

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