Remove HTML Tags from an NSString on the iPhone

Question

There are a couple of different ways to remove HTML tags from an NSString in Cocoa.

One way is to render the string into an

Answer 1

following is the accepted answer, but instead of category, it is simple helper method with string passed into it. (thank you m.kocikowski)

-(NSString *) stringByStrippingHTML:(NSString*)originalString {
    NSRange r;
    NSString *s = [originalString copy];
    while ((r = [s rangeOfString:@"<[^>]+>" options:NSRegularExpressionSearch]).location != NSNotFound)
        s = [s stringByReplacingCharactersInRange:r withString:@""];
    return s;
}