Question

The code below does what I need it to do, but it looks like a train wreck and still adds quotation marks around the output. I would guess that the same result could be had in three to five lines and be quotation free. Do I really have to remove parenthesis and white space each time I do this? Please suggest corrections?

- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
    NSUInteger row = [indexPath row];
    NSString *key = [terms objectAtIndex:row];
    NSArray *nameSection = [letters objectForKey:key];
    NSString *one = @"()";
    NSString *two = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@", nameSection];
    NSString *four = [two stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet: [NSCharacterSet characterSetWithCharactersInString:one]];
    NSString *five = [four stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet: [NSCharacterSet newlineCharacterSet]];
    NSString * definition = [[NSString alloc] initWithFormat:@"%@", five];
    def.text = definition;
    [definition release];
}  

Answer 1

edit:

- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
    NSString *key = [terms objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];
    NSString *nameSection = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@", [letters objectForKey:key]];
    NSString *trimmedString = [nameSection stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet:[NSCharacterSet characterSetWithCharactersInString:@"()\"\n\r"]];

    def.text = trimmedString;
}

You can add \" to one to make the quotations disappear. And the definition lines can be skipped and you can just do def.text = five; instead.