iphone - Is it possible to read the contents of a web page into a string so i can parse out the data? -

i'd able iphone load url( or file url points to) string. reason want able can parse string looking tags , extract values it.

the files webpages html or .asp etc.

anybody able give me hints on need achieve kinda of thing?

many thanks, -code

first url

nsurl *anurl = [nsurl urlwithstring:@"http://google.com"];

then turn string

nserror *error; nsstring *htmlstring = [nsstring stringwithcontentsofurl:anurl encoding:nsutf8encoding error:&error];

update:

there documentation on getting contents of url using nsurlconnection adc site

from there can string representation of downloaded data using

nsstring *htmlstring = [[nsstring alloc] initwithdata:urldata encoding:nsutf8encoding];

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