Question

Is it possible to replace a word with emoticons?

For example

NSString *myString = @”I am sad of him”

now i want to check the word whether it contains the word “sad”, if it has i want to replace that word with sad emoticons.

I am not sure how to have emoticons in the nsstring

Please let me know

Answer 1

yeah, you can do this using this:

myString = [NSString stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"sad" withString:@"\ue058"];

Check this link for emoji codes: (replace the &#x with \u though)
http://barrow.io/posts/iphone-emoji/