iPhone NSString convert to readable text

Question

I have a piece of NSString that will read "Test & Test" or with "

Is there any way without searching and replacing to make that display as "&" or """ ??

Answer 1

Hi,

The html string you read is bad formated.

Try to read as UTF-8 or any other formatting in order to get the correct text from the html you're reading.

Can you actually post the code where you read the NSString from the HTML content ?

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Adrian

Online Timesheet Software

Answer 2

Hi,

Can you try this ?

NSMutableURLRequest *request = [[[NSMutableURLRequest alloc] init] autorelease];

[request setURL:[NSURL URLWithString:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"http://www.mypage.com/content.html"]]];
[request setHTTPMethod:@"GET"];

NSHTTPURLResponse* authResponse;
NSError* authError;
NSData * authData = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:request returningResponse:&authResponse error:&authError];      

NSString *authResponseBody = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:authData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];

NSLog(@" Nice Result: %@", authResponseBody);

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Adrian

Answer 3

CFXMLCreateStringByUnescapingEntities should do it. Thanks to the magic of toll free bridging you can just use your NSString.