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

extension String {
    var html2AttributedString:NSAttributedString {
        return NSAttributedString(data: dataUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding)!, options:[NSDocumentTypeDocumentAttribute:NSHTMLTextDocumentType, NSCharacterEncodingDocumentAttribute: NSUTF8StringEncoding], documentAttributes: nil, error: nil)!
    }
}

let myHtmlCode = "<style type=\"text/css\">#red{color:#F00}#green{color:#0F0}#blue{color: #00F}</style><span id=\"red\" >Red</span> <span id=\"green\" >Green</span><span id=\"blue\">Blue</span>"

myHtmlCode.html2AttributedString

Answer 2

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("<br /><br />", withString:"\r") 
let result2 = result1.stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString(" &nbsp;", withString:" ")
textView.text = result2

Answer 3

Use replacingOccurrences along with a the String.CompareOptions.regularExpresion option.

Example (Swift 3):

var x = "<Hello, [play^ground+]>"
let y = x.replacingOccurrences(of: "[\\[\\]^+<>]", with: "7", options: .regularExpression, range: nil)
print(y)

Input characters which are to be replaced inside the square brackets like so [\\ Characters]

Output:

7Hello, 7play7ground777

Answer 4

I solved it based on the idea of Rosetta Code

extension String {
    func stringByRemovingAll(characters: [Character]) -> String {
        return String(self.characters.filter({ !characters.contains($0) }))
    }

    func stringByRemovingAll(subStrings: [String]) -> String {
        var resultString = self
        subStrings.map { resultString = resultString.stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString($0, withString: "") }
        return resultString
    }
}

Example:

let str = "Hello, stackoverflow"
let chars: [Character] = ["a", "e", "i"]
let myStrings = ["Hello", ", ", "overflow"]

let newString = str.stringByRemovingAll(chars)
let anotherString = str.stringByRemovingAll(myStrings)

Result, when printed:

newString: Hllo, stckovrflow

anotherString: stack