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DropBox integration to iPhone Application

In one of my iPhone application i wanted to integrate DropBox to share things. I just visited the DropBox developer site : https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/sdk and downloaded the sdk for iOS and the tutorial for integration. DropBox has really made it very easy to integrate and have provided an awesome documentation. I followed the steps, made some modifications and i was done. You can download the sample code: Download

Parse CSV file in Objective C

Sometimes we have a bulk of data in a .csv file which we need to add or access in our iOS Application. For this we can add that .csv file in application's bundle, fetch data from it and store it in an NSArray for use. Follow the steps: 1. Once list of Country Names so i downloaded the full-country-list.csv from internet and added it in my application's bundle by simply dragging it. 2. Now i just located that file path and stored in 'strPath' variable, then stored its contents and encoding type in 'strFile' variable. 3. Checked if file is present and i am able to read it. 4. Now i allocated & initialized an NSArray object 'arrayCountry'. 5. To parse file use 'strFile componentsSeparatedByString:@"\n"' and store it in arrayCountry. This .csv file is seperated with new line character, if .csv is seperated by comma use ',' instead of '\n'. 6. And we are done with parsing .csv file and we have all country nam