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// Build the string to search against the twitter search api
NSString *urlString = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=&ands=%@&phrase=&rpp=50",searchTerm];
    
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:urlString];

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//Create the regular expression to match against whitespace or % or ^
NSRegularExpression *regex = [NSRegularExpression regularExpressionWithPattern:@"(\\s|%|^)" options:NSRegularExpressionCaseInsensitive error:&error];
	
//Create the regular expression to match against hash tags
NSRegularExpression *regexHash = [NSRegularExpression regularExpressionWithPattern:@"#" options:NSRegularExpressionCaseInsensitive error:&error];
	
// create the new string by replacing the matching of the regex pattern with the template pattern(whitespace)
NSString *tempString = [regex stringByReplacingMatchesInString:searchTerm options:0 range:NSMakeRange(0, [searchTerm length]) withTemplate:@"%20"];
	
// create the new string by replacing the matching of the regex pattern with the template pattern(whitespace)

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#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>

@interface SearchTwitter : NSObject {
    NSMutableData *tweetBlob;
}

- (void)grabData:(NSString *)searchTerm;

@end

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+ (void)initialize
{
	//configure iRate
	[iRate sharedInstance].appStoreID = 355313284;
}

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- (void)touchesEnded: (NSSet *)touches withEvent: (UIEvent *)event {
	for (UIView* view in self.view.subviews) {
		if ([view isKindOfClass:[UITextField class]])
			[view resignFirstResponder];
	}
}

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- (NSString *)grabData:(NSString *)searchTerm {
	// Setup an error to catch stuff in 
	NSError *error = NULL;
	//Create the regular expression to match against
	NSRegularExpression *regex = [NSRegularExpression regularExpressionWithPattern:@"\\s" options:NSRegularExpressionCaseInsensitive error:&error];
	// create the new string by replacing the matching of the regex pattern with the template pattern(whitespace)
	NSString *newSearchString = [regex stringByReplacingMatchesInString:searchTerm options:0 range:NSMakeRange(0, [searchTerm length]) withTemplate:@"%20"];	
	NSLog(@"New string: %@",newSearchString);
	return newSearchString;
}

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- (NSString *)stripOutHttp:(NSString *)httpLine {
        // Setup an NSError object to catch any failures
	NSError *error = NULL;	
        // create the NSRegularExpression object and initialize it with a pattern
        // the pattern will match any http or https url, with option case insensitive
	NSRegularExpression *regex = [NSRegularExpression regularExpressionWithPattern:@"https?://([-\\w\\.]+)+(:\\d+)?(/([\\w/_\\.]*(\\?\\S+)?)?)?" options:NSRegularExpressionCaseInsensitive error:&error];
        // create an NSRange object using our regex object for the first match in the string httpline
	NSRange rangeOfFirstMatch = [regex rangeOfFirstMatchInString:httpLine options:0 range:NSMakeRange(0, [httpLine length])];
        // check that our NSRange object is not equal to range of NSNotFound
	if (!NSEqualRanges(rangeOfFirstMatch, NSMakeRange(NSNotFound, 0))) {