Question

I am developing an app based on the programming joke blog I have created.

In each post there is an html body that includes the image and a NSString in the following format:

/* by AUTHOR (SOMETIMES WITH SPACES etc) */

I would like to use regex to extract this author name, minus the other text. Can anyone give an example of how to do this?

EDIT:
I need the ???? line:

NSString *result = [htmlString stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString: ???? 
                                                      withString:@"$1, " 
                                                         options:NSRegularExpressionSearch
                                                           range:NSMakeRange(0, [htmlString length])];

Answer 1

If your text is always in the same format, i.e. /* TEXT */ you don’t need an regex, but you could do this with a substring with range. Else if you want a regex, here is a link to the solution

You could also see this page