Question

How can I programmatically make this NSString:

(
    548760
)

It’s basically:

(           548760       )

… but that should not matter.

To this NSString:

548760

Answer 1

If you know that the string will be the same format every time:

NSString *trimmedString = [string stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet:[NSCharacterSet whitespaceAndNewlineCharacterSet]];

NSString *formattedString;
formattedString = [string stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"(" withString:@""];
formattedString = [formattedString stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@")" withString:@""];