---
title: user
framework: foundation
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: foundation/nsurl/user
---

# user

The user name, conforming to RFC 1808.

## Declaration

```swift
var user: String? { get }
```

## Discussion

Discussion This property contains the user name, unescaped using the replacingPercentEscapes(using:) method. If the receiver’s URL does not conform to RFC 1808, this property returns nil. For example, in the URL ftp://username@www.example.com/, the user name is username.

## See Also

### Accessing the Parts of the URL

- [absoluteString](foundation/nsurl/absolutestring.md)
- [absoluteURL](foundation/nsurl/absoluteurl.md)
- [baseURL](foundation/nsurl/baseurl.md)
- [fileSystemRepresentation](foundation/nsurl/filesystemrepresentation.md)
- [fragment](foundation/nsurl/fragment.md)
- [host](foundation/nsurl/host.md)
- [lastPathComponent](foundation/nsurl/lastpathcomponent.md)
- [parameterString](foundation/nsurl/parameterstring.md)
- [password](foundation/nsurl/password.md)
- [path](foundation/nsurl/path.md)
- [pathComponents](foundation/nsurl/pathcomponents.md)
- [pathExtension](foundation/nsurl/pathextension.md)
- [port](foundation/nsurl/port.md)
- [query](foundation/nsurl/query.md)
- [relativePath](foundation/nsurl/relativepath.md)