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Unescape HTML entities in Swift 3 == £ -> £
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extension String { | |
func unescapeHTMLEntities() throws -> String { | |
guard contains("&#") else { | |
return self | |
} | |
guard let data = data(using: .utf8) else { | |
return self | |
} | |
let attributes: [String: Any] = [ | |
NSDocumentTypeDocumentAttribute: NSHTMLTextDocumentType, | |
NSCharacterEncodingDocumentAttribute: String.Encoding.utf8 | |
] | |
let attributedString = try NSAttributedString( | |
data: data, | |
options: attributes, | |
documentAttributes: nil | |
) | |
return attributedString.string | |
} | |
} | |
"£100".unescapeHTMLEntities() // £100 |
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