I have an NSString *str, having value @"I like Programming and gaming." I have to remove "I" "like" & "and" from my string so it should look like as "Programming gaming"
How can I do this, any Idea?
I have an NSString *str, having value @"I like Programming and gaming." I have to remove "I" "like" & "and" from my string so it should look like as "Programming gaming"
How can I do this, any Idea?
NSString *newString = @"I like Programming and gaming."; NSString *newString1 = [newString stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"I" withString:@""]; NSString *newString12 = [newString1 stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"like" withString:@""]; NSString *final = [newString12 stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"and" withString:@""]; Assigned to wrong string variable edited now it is fine
NSLog(@"%@",final); output : Programming gaming
NSString * newString = [@"I like Programming and gaming." stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"I" withString:@""]; newString = [newString stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"like" withString:@""]; newString = [newString stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"and" withString:@""]; NSLog(@"%@", newString); More efficient and maintainable than doing a bunch of stringByReplacing... calls in series:
NSSet* badWords = [NSSet setWithObjects:@"I", @"like", @"and", nil]; NSString* str = @"I like Programming and gaming."; NSString* result = nil; NSArray* parts = [str componentsSeparatedByString:@" "]; for (NSString* part in parts) { if (! [badWords containsObject: part]) { if (! result) { //initialize result result = part; } else { //append to the result result = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@ %@", result, part]; } } } It is an old question, but I'd like to show my solution:
NSArray* badWords = @[@"the", @"in", @"and", @"&",@"by"]; NSMutableString* mString = [NSMutableString stringWithString:str]; for (NSString* string in badWords) { mString = [[mString stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:string withString:@""] mutableCopy]; } return [NSString stringWithString:mString]; Make a mutable copy of your string (or initialize it as NSMutableString) and then use replaceOccurrencesOfString:withString:options:range: to replace a given string with @"" (empty string).