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Asked: 2026-05-14T20:54:51+00:00

How have you like minded individuals tackled the basic challenge of filtering profanity, obviously

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How have you like minded individuals tackled the basic challenge of filtering profanity, obviously one can’t possibly tackle every scenario but it would be nice to have one at the most basic level as a first line of defense.

In Obj-c I’ve got 

NSString *tokens = [text componentsSeparatedByString:@" "];

And then I loop through each token to see if any of the keywords (I’ve got about 400 in a list) are found within each token.

Realising False positives are also a problem, if the word is a perfect match, its flagged as profanity otherwise if more than 3 words with profanity are found without being perfect matches it is also flagged as profanity.

Later on I will use a webservice that tackles the problem more precisely, but I really just need something basic. So if you wrote the word penis it would go yup naughty naughty, bad word written.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I just have a suggestion for tokenizing the string. Your ways works well if the words are all separated by strings but that is rarely the case in most usage scenarios as you would normally have to deal with newlines, punctuation, etc. Try this if you are interested:

    NSMutableCharacterSet *separators = [NSMutableCharacterSet punctuationCharacterSet];

[separators formUnionWithCharacterSet:[NSCharacterSet whitespaceAndNewlineCharacterSet]];

NSArray *words = [bigString componentsSeparatedByCharactersInSet:separators];

    Source: http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/3418/cocoa-explode-break-nsstring-into-individual-words/

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