Replace occurrences of NSString - iPhone

Question

I have a long NSString in which I m trying to replace special characters. Part of my string looks like this:

"veau (c\u00f4telette)","veau (filet)","agneau (gigot)","agneau (c\u00f4telette)","b**\u0153**uf (hach\u00e9)","porc (hach\u00e9)"

I would like to replace all the \u0153 with "oe". I've tried:

[response stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"\u0153" withString:@"oe"];

but it doesn't work.... I don't understand why!

Josh Freeman · Accepted Answer · 2010-03-22T13:09:08.690

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The backslash is an escape character, so if you want to specify the actual backslash character in a string literal, you need to use two backslashes.

NSString *new = [old stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString: @"\\u0153" withString:@"oe"];

edited Mar 22 '10 at 13:09

answered Mar 22 '10 at 13:03

Josh Freeman

what if i have to replace two different components of the string like "veau" and "u0153" – TechnocraT Jan 03 '12 at 12:43

score 7 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 22 '10 at 12:46

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NSString is immutable, so the function generates a new string that you have to store:

NSString *new = [old stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"\u0153" withString:@"oe"];

answered Mar 22 '10 at 12:46

eWolf

sorry, I forgot to mention this is already the case... still doesn't work! – ncohen Mar 22 '10 at 12:52

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