Most memory efficient way to split an NSString in to substrings

Question

I have the following code:

    int start = [html rangeOfString:@\"class=WordSection1>\"].location + 24;
    int end = [html rangeOfString:@\"


        
      

Answer 1

Parsing HTML using rangeOfString:, NSScanner or regular expressions is futile. It might work for your test case, but it is going to break as soon as the HTML changes.

I.e. keep in mind that:

And:

Are both identical in terms of the class attribute.

Use a proper HTML parser.