Importing Info From External File

[rob.mccarthy]

Hi All,

Basically, I have been searching for some info on how the following occurs, but have not yet come up trumphs.

I am not looking for an answer, just a link or something to the right direction so I can understand it myself.

So, the problem:

I need to be able to read a value from the internet (not bothered how it is stored yet, this can be sorted to match the solution) and pass it to a variable in my app.

Any direction welcomed.

[screwtape]

NSString Class Reference

[rob.mccarthy]

Hi All (again),

Thanks for the previous help, this pointed me in the correct direction. I have it sort of working, but still coming up against a problem. Here is what I have at the moment:

NSString *url =@"http://www.WEBPAGE.html";
NSString *escapedURL = [url stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding];
NSString *webpageString = [NSString stringWithContentsOfURL:[NSURL URLWithString:escapedURL]];
	
NSLog(@"webpage contents: %@", webpageString);

The problem is that I have 1 word/item in the html page, and I want to use this and transfer it to a 'String' variable.

Now when I do this, it seems to pass a value which looks the same as the HTML variable I am wanting (I can check throughout with NSLogs) BUT it doesn't seem to recognise it when I go to see if it compares with abnother string variable.

Hope this makes sense.

Originally Posted by screwtape

NSString Class Reference

[rob.mccarthy]

Hi All,

Can anyone help today?

Thanks,

Originally Posted by rob.mccarthy

Hi All (again),

Thanks for the previous help, this pointed me in the correct direction. I have it sort of working, but still coming up against a problem. Here is what I have at the moment:

NSString *url =@"http://www.WEBPAGE.html";
NSString *escapedURL = [url stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding];
NSString *webpageString = [NSString stringWithContentsOfURL:[NSURL URLWithString:escapedURL]];
	
NSLog(@"webpage contents: %@", webpageString);

The problem is that I have 1 word/item in the html page, and I want to use this and transfer it to a 'String' variable.

Now when I do this, it seems to pass a value which looks the same as the HTML variable I am wanting (I can check throughout with NSLogs) BUT it doesn't seem to recognise it when I go to see if it compares with abnother string variable.

Hope this makes sense.