NSString - Convert to pure alphabet only (i.e. remove accents+punctuation)

Question

I\'m trying to compare names without any punctuation, spaces, accents etc. At the moment I am doing the following:

-(NSString*) prepareString:(NSString*)a {
         


        

Answer 1

Consider using the RegexKit framework. You could do something like:

NSString *searchString      = @"This is neat.";
NSString *regexString       = @"[\W]";
NSString *replaceWithString = @"";
NSString *replacedString    = [searchString stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfRegex:regexString withString:replaceWithString];

NSLog (@"%@", replacedString);
//... Thisisneat