iOS Parsing a string, not from xml

[lowcountry01]

How would I parse a simple string that is not from xml?
For example, I have two arrays: arrayName and arrayProduct. I have a string (myString) that looks like this:

Crest;Toothpaste;;Polo;Shirts;;Webster;Dictionaries;;Starbucks;Coffee;;

What I want to do is have the company name be inserted into arrayName, and the product inserted into arrayProduct. I will eventually populate a uitableview with these, having the company prominent, and the product the cell's subtitle.

How would I go about parsing this?

 

[robbieduncan]

Did you even bother opening the NSString documentation?

Take a look at the componentsSeparatedByString: method. Hint: you'll need to use it once to break it into NSStrings that hold a pair each then again on each NSString you get from that.

 

[Troglodyte]

Has anyone else noticed that the person that wrote the documentation for that method was obviously a 'Porridge' fan - Norman, Stanley, Fletcher...

 

[robbieduncan]

Has anyone else noticed that the person that wrote the documentation for that method was obviously a 'Porridge' fan - Norman, Stanley, Fletcher...

Brilliant. For some reason I'd never noticed that