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

Question

I\'d like to be able to get my iphone to load a URL( or really the file that the url points to) into a string. The reason I want to be able to do this is so that I can then pars

Answer 1

First get the URL

NSURL *anUrl = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://google.com"];

Then turn it into a string

NSError *error;
NSString *htmlString = [NSString stringWithContentsOfURL:anUrl encoding:NSUTF8Encoding error:&error];

UPDATE:

There is documentation on getting the contents of an URL by using NSURLConnection from the ADC site

From there you can get the string representation of the downloaded data using

NSString *htmlString = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:urlData encoding:NSUTF8Encoding];