Fetching part of URL from given URL

Question

Possible Duplicate:
Extract part of URL

How can I fetch part of a url from whole url string?

Example given url:

http://[email protected]:7006/imageID = 45254

Required part:

http://[email protected]:7006

Answer 1

This will work in the general case:

NSString* str = @"http://[email protected]:7006/imageID=45254";
NSURL* url = [NSURL URLWithString:str];    
NSString* aaa = [str stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:[url path] withString:@""];