String printing incorrectly in table view after JSON parsing - ios

Question

I one of my apps, i parse some data from local host and print it in a table view. To get the data, the user first logs in using an alert view. The user id entered is then used to fetch the data which i parse using JSON.
There is definitely a very simple solution to this question but I can't seem to be able to fix it. The problem is that when I print the data the string comes in this format:
( "string" )
But I want it so that it just says : string
in the table view. Here is my parsing method:
- (void)updateMyBooks
{
dispatch_async(dispatch_get_global_queue(DISPATCH_QUEUE_PRIORITY_DEFAULT, 0), ^{
// Fetch data on a background thread:
NSString *authFormatString =
#"http://localhost:8888/Jineel_lib/bookBorrowed.php?uid=%#";
NSString *string = [[NSString alloc]initWithFormat:#"%#",UserID];
NSString *urlString = [NSString stringWithFormat:authFormatString, string];
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:urlString];
NSLog(#"uel is %#", url);
NSString *contents = [NSString stringWithContentsOfURL:url encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding error:nil];
response1 = [contents JSONValue];
if (contents) {
// ... Parse JSON response and add objects to newBooksBorrowed ...
BookName = [[NSString alloc]init];
DateBorrowed = [[NSString alloc]init];
BookID = [[NSString alloc]init];
BookExtended = [[NSString alloc]init];
BookReturned = [[NSString alloc]init];
BookName = [response1 valueForKey:#"BookName"];
BookID = [response1 valueForKey:#"BookID"];
DateBorrowed = [response1 valueForKey:#"DateBorrowed"];
BookExtended = [response1 valueForKey:#"Extended"];
BookReturned = [response1 valueForKey:#"Returned"];
dispatch_sync(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
// Update data source array and reload table view.
[BooksBorrowed addObject:BookName];
NSLog(#"bookBorrowed array = %#",BooksBorrowed);
[self.tableView reloadData];
});
}
});
}
This is how I print it in the table view:
NSString *string = [[NSString alloc] initWithFormat:#"%#",[BooksBorrowed objectAtIndex:indexPath.row]];
NSLog(#"string is %#",string);
cell.textLabel.text = string;
When I use log during the parsing process, it comes out as ( "string" ) so the problem is somewhere in the parsing, at least thats what I think.

Answer 1

If
NSString *string = [[NSString alloc] initWithFormat:#"%#",[BooksBorrowed objectAtIndex:indexPath.row]];
returns something like "( string )" then the most probably reason is that
[BooksBorrowed objectAtIndex:indexPath.row]
is not a string, but an array containing a string. In that case,
NSString *string = [[BooksBorrowed objectAtIndex:indexPath.row] objectAtIndex:0];
should be the solution.

Answer 2

NSString *string = [[NSString alloc] initWithFormat:#"%#",[BooksBorrowed objectAtIndex:indexPath.row]];
string = [string stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:#"(" withString:#""];
string = [string stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:#")" withString:#""];
string = [string stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:#"\"" withString:#""];
NSLog(#"string is %#",string);
cell.textLabel.text = string;
EDIT:
Above code is used if it's showing text in that format in your label.
If you see that in NSlog then it's NSString inside NSArray.
You need to fetch that string first from array and then display, use code line suggested by #Martin R for that.
NSString *string = [[BooksBorrowed objectAtIndex:indexPath.row] objectAtIndex:0];