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

Another one way:

Interface:

-(NSString *) stringByStrippingHTML:(NSString*)inputString;

Implementation

(NSString *) stringByStrippingHTML:(NSString*)inputString
{ 
NSAttributedString *attrString = [[NSAttributedString alloc] initWithData:[inputString dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding] options:@{NSDocumentTypeDocumentAttribute: NSHTMLTextDocumentType,NSCharacterEncodingDocumentAttribute: @(NSUTF8StringEncoding)} documentAttributes:nil error:nil];
NSString *str= [attrString string]; 

//you can add here replacements as your needs:
    [str stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"[" withString:@""];
    [str stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"]" withString:@""];
    [str stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"\n" withString:@""];

    return str;
}

Realization

cell.exampleClass.text = [self stringByStrippingHTML:[exampleJSONParsingArray valueForKey: @"key"]];

or simple

NSString *myClearStr = [self stringByStrippingHTML:rudeStr];