hello everyone!

I'm trying to find the best way to display images inside of UILabels (in fact, I wouldn't mind switching to something other than UILabel if it supports images with no hassle)

The scenario is:

• I have a table view with hundreds of cells and UILabel being the main component of each cell
• The text I assign to each cell contains sequences of characters that need to be parsed out and represented as an image

In simpler words, imagine a TableView of an instant messenger that parses replaces all ":)", ":(", ":D" etc with corresponding smiley images

Any input would be greatly appreciated!