Convert formatted HTML text string to NSString parts

Question

I want to decode HTML string and store it in NSString.

following is the html string for one of the response from google direction api.

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Answer 1

There's a very nice NSString category that you can use, it's a part of the project MWFeedParser. More specifically, you look for the file NSString+HTML.

The NSString+HTML category adds the following methods to the NSString Class,

- (NSString *)stringByStrippingTags;
- (NSString *)stringWithNewLinesAsBRs;
- (NSString *)stringByRemovingNewLinesAndWhitespace;
- (NSString *)stringByDecodingHTMLEntities;
- (NSString *)stringByEncodingHTMLEntities;

You could then try something like:

NSString *summary = [[[htmlString stringByStrippingTags] stringByRemovingNewLinesAndWhitespace] stringByDecodingHTMLEntities];

Hope it helps!, good luck :)