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Remove HTML Tags from an NSString on the iPhone

I have a method that i use to remove HTML tags from NSString(i made a category with that):

-(NSString *) stringByStrippingHTML {
    NSRange r;
    NSString *s = [[self copy] autorelease];
    while ((r = [s rangeOfString:@"<[^>]+>" options:NSRegularExpressionSearch]).location != NSNotFound)
        s = [s stringByReplacingCharactersInRange:r withString:@""];
    return s;
}

The issue is that i want to remove all HTML tags except the <br> tags, can i able to do it?

Answer 1

You can tweak as

First replce <br/> with *br/* then replace all html tags and then again replace *br/* to <br/>.

Or, you can use conditional replacing .. if read tag is br continue else replace.