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iOS Build a Blog Reader iPhone App Getting Data from the Web Downloading and Parsing JSON Data

Sebastian Nitu
Sebastian Nitu
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Posted by Sebastian Nitu
Sebastian Nitu
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blog.teamtreehouse.com JSON problems...

It seems that the JSON data for the Blog reader tutorial is no longer properly formatted.

Apostrophe symbols are missing...

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CC:@Amit Bijlani

1 Answer

Amit Bijlani
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Amit Bijlani
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Amit Bijlani
Amit Bijlani
Treehouse Guest Teacher

That's actually a good thing because things like apostrophes always cause problems. This is the perfect example of having to scrub through third-party data to clean it up before displaying it. I would just convert the HTML character to an apostrophe.

You can create a method to perform the conversion (and add others as needed):

- (NSString*)htmlToText:(NSString*)htmlString {
    htmlString = [htmlString stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"’"  withString:@"'"];
    htmlString = [htmlString stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@""" withString:@""""];    
    return htmlString;
}