Swift Replace Multiple Characters in String

Question

Below is the following line of code I use to replace an HTML break tag with a carriage return. However, I have other HTML symbols that I need to replace and when I call this lin

Answer 1

I solved it based on the idea of Rosetta Code

extension String {
    func stringByRemovingAll(characters: [Character]) -> String {
        return String(self.characters.filter({ !characters.contains($0) }))
    }

    func stringByRemovingAll(subStrings: [String]) -> String {
        var resultString = self
        subStrings.map { resultString = resultString.stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString($0, withString: "") }
        return resultString
    }
}

Example:

let str = "Hello, stackoverflow"
let chars: [Character] = ["a", "e", "i"]
let myStrings = ["Hello", ", ", "overflow"]

let newString = str.stringByRemovingAll(chars)
let anotherString = str.stringByRemovingAll(myStrings)

Result, when printed:

newString: Hllo, stckovrflow

anotherString: stack