How to selectively trim an NSMutableString?

I would like to know how to selectively trim an NSMutableString. For example, if my string is "MobileSafari_2011-09-10-155814_Jareds-iPhone.plist", how would I programatically trim off everything except the word "MobileSafari"?

Note : Given the term programatically above, I expect the solution to work even if the word "MobileSafari" is changed to "Youtube" for example, or the word "Jared's-iPhone" is changed to "Angela's-iPhone".

Any help is very much appr开发者_StackOverfloweciated!

Given that you always need to extract the character upto the first underscore; use the following method;

NSArray *stringParts = [yourString componentsSeparatedByString:@"_"];

The first object in the array would be the extracted part you need I would think.

TESTED CODE: 100% WORKS

NSString *inputString=@"MobileSafari_2011-09-10-155814_Jareds-iPhone.plist";

NSArray *array= [inputString componentsSeparatedByString:@"_"];

if ([array count]>0) {

    NSString *resultedString=[array objectAtIndex:0];


    NSLog(@" resultedString IS - %@",resultedString);



}

OUTPUT:

resultedString IS - MobileSafari

If you know the format of the string is always like that, it can be easy.

Just use NSString's componentsSeparatedByString: documented here.

In your case you could do this:

NSString *source = @"MobileSafari_2011-09-10-155814_Jareds-iPhone.plist";

NSArray *seperatedSubStrings = [source componentsSeparatedByString:@"_"];

NSString *result = [seperatedSubStrings objectAtIndex:0];

@"MobileSafari" would be at index 0, @"2011-09-10-155814" at index 1, and @"Jareds-iPhone.plist" and at index 2.

Try this :

NSString *strComplete = @"MobileSafari_2011-09-10-155814_Jareds-iPhone.plist";  
NSArray *arr = [strComplete componentsSeparatedByString:@"_"];  
NSString *str1 = [arr objectAtIndex:0];  
NSString *str2 = [arr objectAtIndex:1];  
NSString *str3 = [arr objectAtIndex:2]; 

str1 is the required string.
Even if you change MobileSafari to youtube it will work.

So you'll need an NSString variable that'll hold the beginning of the string you want to truncate. After that one way could be to change the string and the variable string values at the simultanously. Say, teh Variable string was "Youtube" not it is changed to "MobileSafari" then the mutable string string should change from "MobileSafari_....." to "YouTube_......". And then you can get the variable strings length and used the following code to truncate the the mutable string.

NSString *beginningOfTheStr;
.....
theMutableStr=[theMutableStr substringToIndex:[beginningOfTheStrlength-1]]; 

See if tis works for you.