NSString stringWithContentsOfURL example ios

stringWithContentsOfURL: encoding: error:

Returns a string created by reading data from a given URL interpreted using a given encoding.

+ (id)stringWithContentsOfURL:(NSURL *)url encoding:(NSStringEncoding)enc error:(NSError**)error

Parameters

url

The URL to read.

enc

The encoding of the data at url.

error

If an error occurs, upon returns contains an NSError object that describes the problem. If you are not interested in possible errors, you may pass in NULL.

Return Value[ NSString stringWithContentsOfURL example ]

A string created by reading data from URL using the encoding, enc. If the URL can’t be opened or there is an encoding error, returns nil.

[ NSString stringWithContentsOfURL example ]

NSError *error = nil;
NSString *locationString = [NSString stringWithContentsOfURL:[NSURL URLWithString:urlString] encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding error:&error];
NSArray *listItems = [locationString componentsSeparatedByString:@","];

[ NSString stringWithContentsOfURL example ]

NSError* error = nil;
NSString* text = [NSString stringWithContentsOfURL:TheUrl encoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding error:&error];
if( text )
{
    NSLog(@"Text=%@", text);
}
else 
{
    NSLog(@"Error = %@", error);
}

[ NSString stringWithContentsOfURL example ]

dispatch_queue_t queue = dispatch_get_global_queue(DISPATCH_QUEUE_PRIORITY_DEFAULT, 0);

dispatch_async(queue, ^{
        NSError *error = nil;
        NSString *searchResultString = [NSString stringWithContentsOfURL:[NSURL URLWithString:searchURL]
                                                           encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding
                                                              error:&error];
        if (error != nil) {
            completionBlock(term,nil,error);
        }
        else
        {
            // Parse the JSON Response
            NSData *jsonData = [searchResultString dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
            NSDictionary *searchResultsDict = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:jsonData
                                                                              options:kNilOptions
                                                                                error:&error];
            if(error != nil)
            {
                completionBlock(term,nil,error);
            }
            else
            {

                //Other Work here
            }
        }
    });