Swift Replace Multiple Characters in String

Question

Below is the following line of code I use to replace an HTML break tag with a carriage return. However, I have other HTML symbols that I need to replace and when I call this lin

Answer 1

As @matt mentioned you are starting over with the same content string. The stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString method doesn't actually change anything in the original content string. It returns to you a new string with the replacement changes while content remains unchanged.

Something like this should work for you

let result1 = content.stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString("

", withString:"\r") 
let result2 = result1.stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString("  ", withString:" ")
textView.text = result2