regular expression in ios to remove href links
ios, nsregularexpression, regex
Solution
I think
NSRegularExpression *regex = [NSRegularExpression regularExpressionWithPattern:@"<a href=\"[^\"]+\">([^<]+)</a>" options:NSRegularExpressionCaseInsensitive error:&error];
NSString *modifiedString = [regex stringByReplacingMatchesInString:string options:0 range:NSMakeRange(0, [string length]) withTemplate:@"$1"];
should work (I tested the regexp in TextMate but not in XCode).
Problem
i need some help in building a regular expression to remove href links with search terms from a long string that i then parse into a web view an example of the href string : `<a href="/search/?search=Huntington">Huntington</a>` i would like to remove everthing but the plain text of the link (just the link itself) but having troubles ``` NSRegularExpression *regex = [NSRegularExpression regularExpressionWithPattern:@"<a href=\"/search/?search=([A-Z][a-z])\"" options:NSRegularExpressionCaseInsensitive error:&error]; ``` any help would be greatly welcomed Thanks