Comfortable convertation HTML to NSString

Question

I would like to have long 'NSString' with this html:

<html>

    <head>
       <title>Title of the document</title>
    </head>

    <body>
       <h1>My First Heading</h1>
    </body>

</html>

Is there a comfortable way of doing this? Something like:

    NSString *a = [NSString stringWithLongString: "   

<html>

    <head>
       <title>Title of the document</title>
    </head>

    <body>
       <h1>My First Heading</h1>
    </body>

</html>"]

Without having to sqwush everything to one line?

Consider putting the html text in its own file. You can simply load it with +stringWithContentsOfFile:encoding:error: — w-m, Feb 21 '13 at 12:48
What if I need to change the content of the html constantly? — Luda, Feb 21 '13 at 12:55
@Luda you can add the .html file to Xcode like any other source code file and edit it there. It will even have correct syntax coloring. — w-m, Feb 21 '13 at 13:35

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 21 '13 at 12:40

2

Yes, you can add a \ to the end of every line:

NSString *a = @"    <html>\
\
    <head>\
    <title>Title of the document</title>\
    </head>\
\
    <body>\
    <h1>My First Heading</h1>\
    </body>\
\
</html>";

There is no need to do a [NSString stringWithString:] method, also there is not method stringWithLongString: for NSString.

answered Feb 21 '13 at 12:40

rckoenes

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Even if this is correct, putting the html into a file would be much better solution than polluting code by html. – Sulthan Feb 21 '13 at 12:53
True, but that is not the question asked by @Luda. I do agree that putting it in a separate file would be beter. – rckoenes Feb 21 '13 at 12:54
question asked by @Luda :) And what if I need to change the content of the html constantly? – Luda Feb 21 '13 at 12:57

Shashank · Answer 2 · 2013-02-21T12:51:11.827

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End each line with a "\"

NSString *a = @"    <html>\
\
<head>\
<title>Title of the document</title>\
</head>\
\
<body>\
<h1>My First Heading</h1>\
</body>\
\
</html>";

edited Feb 21 '13 at 12:51

answered Feb 21 '13 at 12:40

Shashank

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Are you sure about stringWithLongString? – Luda Feb 21 '13 at 12:50

Comfortable convertation HTML to NSString

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