NSString replace escaped characters with original version e.g. %40 with @

Question

the web service I'm connecting to returns NSString with escaped characters in it e.g. @ Painful will be returned as %40+Painful

Is there a way to replace %40 with it's original @ which I need to do before displaying in the app

Note: am working on iOS7

Perhaps you could consider using the routine in this answer http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2673207/c-c-url-decode-library — clancer, Feb 04 '14 at 05:20

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 04 '14 at 06:04

as with so many problems, the solution turned out to be simpler that I believed it would...

    NSString *s = [@"%40 Painful" stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"+" withString:@" "];
    s = [s stringByReplacingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]; //This give s=@ Painful

thanks Apple!

NSString replace escaped characters with original version e.g. %40 with @

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