无法替换Swift中的字符串

Question

Trying to escape few special characters of string for sending it via xml api.

Tried below code but not working for all the occurrences of Single Quote (') and Double Quote (")

var strToReturn = "“Hello” ‘world’"
strToReturn = strToReturn.replacingOccurrences(of: "&", with: "&")
strToReturn = strToReturn.replacingOccurrences(of: "<", with: "&lt;")
strToReturn = strToReturn.replacingOccurrences(of: ">", with: "&gt;")
strToReturn = strToReturn.replacingOccurrences(of: "‘", with: "&apos;")
strToReturn = strToReturn.replacingOccurrences(of: "“", with: "&quot;") 

print("Replaced string : \(strToReturn)") 

Result is "Hello” 'world'

If anyone can help, thanks!

Answer 1

You need to specify replacement strings for ' and ” because ' != ' and ” != “

var strToReturn = "“Hello” ‘world’"
strToReturn = strToReturn.replacingOccurrences(of: "&", with: "&")
strToReturn = strToReturn.replacingOccurrences(of: "<", with: "&lt;")
strToReturn = strToReturn.replacingOccurrences(of: ">", with: "&gt;")
strToReturn = strToReturn.replacingOccurrences(of: "‘", with: "&apos;")
strToReturn = strToReturn.replacingOccurrences(of: "“", with: "&quot;")
strToReturn = strToReturn.replacingOccurrences(of: "’", with: "&apos;")
strToReturn = strToReturn.replacingOccurrences(of: "”", with: "&quot;") 

Answer 2

The reason for this is because ” is different than “ and ' is different than ' . So you need to add these lines too.

strToReturn = strToReturn.replacingOccurrences(of: "’", with: "'")
strToReturn = strToReturn.replacingOccurrences(of: "”", with: """) 

This will give you the expected result

Answer 3

Your code is working perfectly fine with me . I just changed the strings as I mentioned in the comments :

For anyone wondering how the Single and Double quotes inside the strings are generated --- Hold down alt/option and press Square / Curly bracket keys

Just change the letters using the key combination and it will work

Answer 4

If you print the ascii values of the string you will see the quotes are not the same unicode character. So make sure you use the same unicode character or handle both case

strToReturn.characters.map{print($0, "\(String($0.unicodeScalars.first!.value, radix: 16, uppercase: true))")}

“ 201C
H 48
e 65
l 6C
l 6C
o 6F
” 201D
  20
‘ 2018
w 77
o 6F
r 72
l 6C
d 64
’ 2019