Get string out of json object of only string - ios

I have a Json string which is only a string in Json format, like below:
#""JSONContent""
Is there a way to get the content out from such JSON string? I've tried to use below code but it cannot be parsed to Dictionary
NSData *jsonData = [rawTime dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSError *e;
NSDictionary *dict = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:jsonData options:nil error:&e];

First of all, if that is the reponse that you are getting, then probably it wont be recognized as JSON because JSON strings start with a '[' or '{' character. Hence, it wont be parsed. You have to make sure that the string you receive from the server is in proper JSON format or not. You can check the JSON string validation on this website : jsonlint.com
Now the code that you have tried will also not work because of the same reason, i.e improper JSON format. There can be many reasons so as to why JSON that is received is in a bad format. It also might be possible that your JSON might be embeeded in an XML string like as shown :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<string xmlns="http://tempuri.org/">
[{"Title":"DemoTitle","CreationDate":"06/06/2014","Description":"DemoDescription"}]
</string>
This is just an example. So the conclusion here is : Make sure your JSON is in proper format, i.e starting with '[' or '{'.
As for the parsing code, this might help you :
NSString *link = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"yourServiceURL"];
NSString *encdLink = [link stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSURL *url=[NSURL URLWithString:encdLink];
NSData *response = [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:url];
NSError *error;
NSArray *jsonArray = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:response options: NSJSONReadingMutableContainers error: &error];
This will fetch the JSON response from the service URL and then parse it using NSJSONSerialization and finally store the data in an array for further use.
Hope this helps.

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["first name","last name","adress","test#test","000-000-0000","password","code","0"]
How can i get the second element ?
This is a JSON formatted string which you are getting from your web service.
You must be getting bytes from server. Just replace your variable which have bytes stored with my variable "response data".
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That web service doesn't return an NSString. It runs data in some format defined by the service, and you convert it to an NSString. Find out what the format actually is, then convert it appropriately, for example using NSJSONSerialization.
The example string your showed here seems wired. This looks more like a array than string. If this is a NSArray then you can do it like this:
NSArray *data = #[#"first name",#"last name", #"adress", #"test#test", #"000-000-0000", #"password", #"code", #"0"];
NSLog (#"Second component = %#", data[1]);
However, if you anticipate this as NSString then this is how you would handle this:
NSString *test = #"[\"first name\",\"last name\",\"adress\",\"test#test\",\"000-000-0000\",\"password\",\"code\",\"0\"]";
NSLog (#"Second component = %#", [test componentsSeparatedByString:#","][1]);

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I try to pass it off to my app with this code
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I am getting the 3840 error code in the NSJSONSerialization
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