How to parse CSV files for Iphone

Question

I am working on a iphone project . I want to parse a CSV file. From whatever I found, the

libraries available for CSV parsing is only for MAC , not for iphone. I want a simple approach

for parsing CSV file only for iphone. Any help is greatly appreciated

Answer 1

This is a nice CSV parser with support for streams: https://github.com/davedelong/CHCSVParser

If you are parsing a file that comes from the web, then you could also use https://github.com/acerbetti/AFCSVRequestOperation which is using the AFNetworking library for downloading the file.

Answer 2

CSV is basically a comma separated list of values. You can use NSString methods componentsSeparatedByString: or componentsSeparatedByCharactersInSet: for that.

Suppose you have a comma separated string, calling [myStringCSV componentsSeparatedByString:@","] will give you an NSArray with the values.