iOS Dev: Strip HTML tags from an NSString

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As it turns out there is no single one liner for striping HTML tags from an NSString in the iOS SDK. So I've written the following NSString category that adds a stripHtml method to all NSStrings. To use this include the .h and .m file into your project and:

Import the header:
#import "NSString_stripHtml.h"

And then call stripHtml:
NSString* mystring = @"<b>Hello</b> World!!";
NSString* stripped = [mystring stripHtml];
// stripped will be = Hello World!!

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5 comments:

  1. nice method. i'd like to replace break tags <-br-> (hyphens added to prevent rendering here) with a space rather than no space. but i'm not sure where to put the if logic for this exclusion. thanks for your help!

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  2. How can i download the files?

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  3. You can see the files now. There was a problem with the blog page and the github files weren't displaying.

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  4. It's great ... thanks

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  5. This worked better in my project than feeding the string through the NSAttributedString initWithHTM method. It produces a lot fewer empty lines. It is also a lot easier than playing around with the three20 framework. Thanks for your post.

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