How to remove all of the html whitespace/newlines of a NSString
- by Kyriakos Leivadas
i've got a problem and i hope someone can solve it.
I parsed some html to a nsstring and im trying to trim all of the characters and keep some specific words.
The problem is that i trimmed all the characters from the nsstring that i didnt want but the weird thing is that i cant get rid of all the whitespace.
i used all the techniques i read from other answers but still some whitespace remains.
here is my code
-(void)requestFinished:(ASIHTTPRequest *)request{
NSString *htmlData = [request responseString];
NSCharacterSet *garbage = [NSCharacterSet characterSetWithCharactersInString:@"qazwsxedcrfvtgbyhnujmik,ol.p;/[]'QAZWSXEDCRFVTGBYHNUJMIKOLP()\"-1234567890#{}=:+_&!`<>"]; //im doing this to remove all characters except non-english chars
htmlData = [htmlData compomentsSeparatedByCharactersInSet:garbage ]compomentsJoinedByString:@""];
htmlData = [htmlData stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet:[NSCharacterSet whitespaceAndNewlineCharacterSet]];
htmlData = [htmlData stringByReplacingOccurencesOfString:@"[\n\t\r ]+" withString@""];
htmlData = [htmlData stringByReplacingOccurencesOfString:@" " withString:@""];
NSLog(@"%@",htmlData);
}
i get this result:
nonenglishwordsnonenglishwords
nonenglishwordsnonenglishwords
(whitespace or new lines in middle remains)
thank you.
