How to parse an asset URL in Objective-c?

Question

The iPhone UIImagePickerControllerReferenceURL returns an URL as:

assets-library://asset/asset.PNG?id=1000000001&ext=PNG

What's the best (preferably simple) way to retrive 1000000001 and PNG as NSStrings from the above URL example?

Possibly related: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3997976/parse-nsurl-query-property — Deepak Danduprolu, Jul 06 '11 at 03:48

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 06 '11 at 03:47

Well, you can easily turn it into an NSURL by using +[NSURL URLWithString:]. From there you could grab the -query string and parse it out, something like this:

NSString *query = ...;
NSArray *queryPairs = [query componentsSeparatedByString:@"&"];
NSMutableDictionary *pairs = [NSMutableDictionary dictionary];
for (NSString *queryPair in queryPairs) {
  NSArray *bits = [queryPair componentsSeparatedByString:@"="];
  if ([bits count] != 2) { continue; }

  NSString *key = [[bits objectAtIndex:0] stringByRemovingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
  NSString *value = [[bits objectAtIndex:1] stringByRemovingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];

  [pairs setObject:value forKey:key];
}

NSLog(@"%@", pairs);

Warning, typed in a browser, so some of my spellings may be wrong.

@ohho As of iOS 9, this is deprecated. Use ```[myString stringByRemovingPercentEncoding];``` instead. — Supertecnoboff, Jul 18 '17 at 16:11

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 06 '11 at 05:50

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For IOS >= 4.0 you can use native regular expressions with NSRegularExpression class. Examples you can find here

answered Jul 06 '11 at 05:50

Valerii Pavlov

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How to parse an asset URL in Objective-c?

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