Split one string into different strings

Question

i have the text in a string as shown below

011597464952,01521545545,454545474,454545444|Hello this is were the message is.

Basically i would like each of the numbers in different strings to the message eg

NSString *Number1 = 011597464952 
NSString *Number2 = 01521545545
etc
etc
NSString *Message = Hello this is were the message is.

i would like to have that split out from one string that contains it all

Answer 1

I would use -[NSString componentsSeparatedByString]:

NSString *str = @"011597464952,01521545545,454545474,454545444|Hello this is were the message is.";

NSArray *firstSplit = [str componentsSeparatedByString:@"|"];
NSAssert(firstSplit.count == 2, @"Oops! Parsed string had more than one |, no message or no numbers.");
NSString *msg = [firstSplit lastObject];
NSArray *numbers = [[firstSplit objectAtIndex:0] componentsSepratedByString:@","];

// print out the numbers (as strings)
for(NSString *currentNumberString in numbers) {
  NSLog(@"Number: %@", currentNumberString);
}

Answer 2

Look at NSString componentsSeparatedByString or one of the similar APIs.

If this is a known fixed set of results, you can then take the resulting array and use it something like:

NSString *number1 = [array objectAtIndex:0];    
NSString *number2 = [array objectAtIndex:1];
...

If it is variable, look at the NSArray APIs and the objectEnumerator option.