Remove Ten Spaces After Specific Character

Question

I have an string which is coming from a server :

<p><a href=\"tel:(555) 555-5555\">(555) 555-5555</a>&nbsp;</p>

I want to remove any space after "tel:" up to 10 characters.

I tried this below code but didn't achieve my goal.

 NSString *serviceMessage = dict[@"message"];

 serviceMessage = [serviceMessage stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"<br />" withString:@"\n"];
 serviceMessage = [serviceMessage stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"<div>" withString:@"\n"];
 serviceMessage = [serviceMessage stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"<p>" withString:@""];
 serviceMessage = [serviceMessage stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"</div>" withString:@""];
 serviceMessage = [serviceMessage stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"</p>" withString:@""];
 serviceMessage = [serviceMessage stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"&nbsp;" withString:@""];
 serviceMessage = [serviceMessage stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"\n" withString:@" "];

 NSString *mainString = serviceMessage;
 if ([mainString containsString:@"tel:"]) {
      NSUInteger location = [mainString rangeOfString:@"tel:"].location + 4;
      NSString *newString = [mainString substringFromIndex:location];
                        [newString substringWithRange:NSMakeRange(10,0)];
      NSString *newStr =[newString substringToIndex:12];
      NSLog(@"New Trimed string:%@",newStr);
                        newStr = [newStr stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@" " withString:@""];
      NSLog(@"Final Trimed string:%@",newStr);
 }

 serviceMessage = [serviceMessage stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet:
                                      [NSCharacterSet whitespaceAndNewlineCharacterSet]];
 NSString *from = @"From : ";

 NSString *dealerName = dict[@"messageFrom"];

 NSString * append = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@%@%@%@",from, dealerName,@"\n",serviceMessage];

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score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 22 '16 at 10:16

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Try this

NSString *str1=@"Your Example No = 1";
NSArray *tempArray = [str1 componentsSeparatedByString:@"="];
str1 = [tempArray objectAtIndex:0];
NSLog(@"%@", str1);

Output is Your Example No

Hope this helps

answered Sep 22 '16 at 10:16

Kamlesh Shingarakhiya

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 22 '16 at 10:47

If you want the telephone number after the "tel:", you can do it in following way

My code Snippet :

NSString *str = @"<p><a href=\"tel:(555) 555-5555\">(555) 555-5555</a>&nbsp;</p> ";

NSLog(@"str = %@", str);

//It removes the unwanted extra character like (, ), -
NSCharacterSet *dontInclude = [NSCharacterSet characterSetWithCharactersInString:@"()-"];
NSString *strRemoveSpecial = [[str componentsSeparatedByCharactersInSet: dontInclude] componentsJoinedByString: @""];

//Now strRemoveSpecial is without those special character and we remove the space from the resulted string here
NSString *str1 = [strRemoveSpecial stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet:[NSCharacterSet whitespaceCharacterSet]];
NSLog(@"str1 = %@", str1);

//Here we separate string by "tel:" and takes the last part, which contains the telephone number
NSString *strAfterTel = [[strRemoveSpecial componentsSeparatedByString:@"tel:"] lastObject];

//Now substring to 10, which gives us the required telephone number.
NSString *firstTemAfterTel = [strAfterTel substringToIndex:10];

NSLog(@"firstTemAfterTel : %@", firstTemAfterTel);

Hope it helps.

Happy coding ...

Remove Ten Spaces After Specific Character

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