Question

In my app it accepts XML from the server. One of its functions returns a list of names, some having apostrophes (e.g. O’Reilly ).

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> 
   <user id="123456" name="Pat O\'Reilly" is_qualified="false" />

In my parser I try two different methods to get rid of the escape slash, but neither of them work:

[[attributeDict valueForKey:@"name"] stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"\'" withString:@"'"]

and/or

[[attributeDict valueForKey:@"name"] stringByReplacingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]

Printing these out both include the slash: Pat O\’Reilly. any suggestions?

Answer 1

What you want to replace is @"\\\'" with @"\'"

Both \ and ' are special characters.

You might even need to replace @"\\\"" with @"\"" for other texts that look like blaname="bla is \"bla\" and bla".