URLWithString:
Creates and returns an NSURL object initialized with a provided string.
+ (id)URLWithString:(NSString *)URLString
Parameters of [NSURL URLWithString]
- URLString
- The string with which to initialize the NSURL object. Must be a URL that conforms to RFC 2396. This method parses URLString according to RFCs 1738 and 1808. (To create NSURL objects for file system paths, use
fileURLWithPath:isDirectory:instead.)
Return Value
An NSURL object initialized with URLString. If the string was malformed, returns
nil.Discussion of [NSURL URLWithString]
This method expects URLString to contain any necessary percent escape codes, which are ‘:’, ‘/’, ‘%’, ‘#’, ‘;’, and ‘@’. Note that ‘%’ escapes are translated via UTF-8.
Example of [NSURL URLWithString] - 1
NSString *myString = @"http://foo.bar/?key[]=value[]<>";
NSURL *myUrl = [NSURL URLWithString:[myString stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
Example of [NSURL URLWithString] - 2
//localisationName is a arbitrary string here
NSString* webName = [localisationName stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSString* stringURL = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?q=%@,Montréal,Communauté-Urbaine-de-Montréal,Québec,Canadae&output=csv&oe=utf8&sensor=false", webName];
NSString* webStringURL = [stringURL stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSURL* url = [NSURL URLWithString:webStringURL];