Converting URL to String and back again Converting URL to String and back again swift swift

Converting URL to String and back again


swift nsurl

In Swift 5, Swift 4 and Swift 3To convert String to URL:

URL(string: String)

or,

URL.init(string: "yourURLString")

And to convert URL to String:

URL.absoluteString

The one below converts the 'contents' of the url to string

String(contentsOf: URL)

swift nsurl

fileURLWithPath() is used to convert a plain file path (e.g. "/path/to/file") to an URL. Your urlString is a full URL string including the scheme, so you should use

let url = NSURL(string: urlstring)

to convert it back to NSURL. Example:

let urlstring = "file:///Users/Me/Desktop/Doc.txt"let url = NSURL(string: urlstring)println("the url = \(url!)")// the url = file:///Users/Me/Desktop/Doc.txt

swift nsurl

There is a nicer way of getting the string version of the path from the NSURL in Swift:

let path:String = url.path

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