Remove characters from string iOS

Question

I have an XML which I am using to parse news. News have a description. I'm using NSString to show that description in UILabel.

But, the description comes like this:

Bad news for Windows&#8217; the researches show that Windows&#8217; for years....

And it is being showed with those unwanted characters in UILabel. The numbers are changing in every string. They are not the sames.

I want to remove the characters that begins with &# and the numbers that follow. How can I do that? Which string encoding format should I use?

Thanks a lot.

EDIT: I don't have just one string. If I remove &#8217 from this one, there might be &#7610 in another one. It won't be removed.

I can remove &# characters and numbers too. But when I do that, In a string like that "In 1980, Jobs told us to&#2540 do something" the output will be "In , Jobs told us to do something" 1980 will be gone too, but I don't want that. That's a problem either.

For a hint, you need to specify the regular expression pattern and check the range of string is present in your string and remove that string.. — Dinesh Raja, Jan 08 '13 at 09:53
... or `stringByDecodingXMLEntities` in this answer: http://stackoverflow.com/a/1453142/1187415. — Martin R, Jan 08 '13 at 10:10

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 08 '13 at 09:55

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These are ASCAII symbols so you need to use utf-8 string.check this link

so use this line of code

NSString *resultString = [NSString stringWithUTF8String:myAsciiString];

answered Jan 08 '13 at 09:55

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