Stripping HTML

StrippingHTML.m

- (NSString *)flattenHTML:(NSString *)html trimWhiteSpace:(BOOL)trim {
 
  NSScanner *theScanner;
  NSString *text = nil;
 
  theScanner = [NSScanner scannerWithString:html];
 
  while ([theScanner isAtEnd] == NO) {
 
      // find start of tag
      [theScanner scanUpToString:@"<" intoString:NULL] ;                 
      // find end of tag         
      [theScanner scanUpToString:@">" intoString:&text] ;
 
      // replace the found tag with a space
      //(you can filter multi-spaces out later if you wish)
      html = [html stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:
              [ NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@>", text]
                   withString:@" "];
 
  } // while //
 
  // trim off whitespace
  return trim ? [html stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet:[NSCharacterSet whitespaceAndNewlineCharacterSet]] : html;
 
}