Extract simple text from HTML on iPhone?

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 <div dir="ltr"> TEXT TO EXTRACT </div>

<div dir="ltr"> TEXT &amp; MORE TEXT&quot;TEXT&quot; TEXT</div>

Above are examples of the HTML I wish to extract the text into an NSString, ignoring the div wrapper and any other 'stuff' - Some have <BR> included and some have ISO codes (can't remember exact name for these e.g &amp)

many thanks

Nik

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:12

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Perhaps a stronger solution would be to parse the HTML using a Library.

A link and example in this question.

Simple libxml2 HTML parsing example, using Objective-c, Xcode, and HTMLparser.h

edited May 23 '17 at 12:12

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answered May 18 '11 at 23:10

Craig White

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 20 '11 at 22:00

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I ended up using this catagory:

https://github.com/mwaterfall/MWFeedParser/blob/master/Classes/NSString+HTML.m

works great.

answered May 20 '11 at 22:00

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Extract simple text from HTML on iPhone?

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