Objective-C - Using NSScanner to read string?

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SO I am trying to read content of an html string.

[scanner scanUpToString:@"<" intoString:&result];

What is the fastest way to read the content into string but ignore the last character which in this case is "<". I don't want to do stringByReplacingOccuranceOfString, that would perform slow

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Nov 18 '11 at 19:39

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NSScanner's

-scanUpToString:(NSString *)stopString intoString:(NSString *)result

does not include the stopString in the result; you don't need to ignore the last character, because it's not included.

edited Nov 18 '11 at 19:39

beryllium

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answered Nov 18 '11 at 19:21

Scott Austin

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oo my bad, I meant remove the first character, because I am scanning from "<" to ">", so the problem is having a "<" at the beginning of the string – aryaxt Nov 18 '11 at 19:34
@aryaxt Put a `[scanner scanString:@"<" intoString:nil]` before scanning the content to skip it. `@Scott` You're missing an asterisk on the `result` parameter: `(NSString **)result`; – ughoavgfhw Nov 18 '11 at 19:52

Objective-C - Using NSScanner to read string?

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