Re: Remove characters from string
Re: Remove characters from string
- Subject: Re: Remove characters from string
- From: "Heizer, Charles" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 10:47:07 -0700
- Acceptlanguage: en-US
- Thread-topic: Remove characters from string
I really don¹t want to search though the entire string to find a replace.
The "©" is just an example of the characters I would like to remove. I
guess my real question is how do I remove all Unicode characters from a
string?
Thanks,
Charles
On 3/17/11 7:31 AM, "Conrad Shultz" <email@hidden> wrote:
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>On 3/17/11 7:03 AM, Heizer, Charles wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I would like to know how to remove certain characters from a NSString.
>>The
>> characters are "©". I thought I could just use encodings and convert
>>the
>> string using NSASCIIStringEncoding but that did not work and I'm not
>>sure
>> what the car codes are for these as well.
>
>Perhaps I am missing something, but since NSString handles Unicode fine,
>just use either NSString's
>stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:withString: or NSMutableString's
>replaceOccurrencesOfString:withString:options:range: ?
>
>This makes for less work and more readable code since you should be able
>to literally paste the "foreign" characters into your search string and
>not have to fuss around with character codes.
>
>Of course, if your input contains the problem characters in multiple
>underlying representations (say, from different languages), this
>complicates matters. Such a situation happened to me a while back,
>wherein an application on the system and the terminal had different
>notions of how to store accented characters. Suffice it to say this led
>to much hair pulling when it came time to do source code management
>("file X is been added, file X has been removed").
>
>
>
>- --
>Conrad Shultz
>
>Synthetiq Solutions
>www.synthetiqsolutions.com
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