答复一下《今天的iOS面试上机题》

今天看到个面试题目， 觉得还有点意思。
原题目在这里（由于答复里面不支持Macdown，只好另开个文章来答复了）

最初的时候以为一个正则替换"<.*?>"应该就能解决问题，但是题目要求的<>之间的最短距离，并不是正则表达式中的最短匹配的概念，比如在正则里面是符合"<.*?>"的，但是不符合题意，题意要求匹配。又想了一下反向匹配如何？然后反向匹配又会遇到a>b>c>的两难情况。

还望正则高手指点一下。有没有可能用正则匹配？

无奈只好自己写复杂的算法：

- (NSString *)myTrimString:(NSString *)from {
    static NSString *startFlag = @"<";
    static NSString *endFlag = @">";
    
    NSMutableString *result = [from mutableCopy];
    // find the start flag
    NSRange startRange = [result rangeOfString:startFlag];
    while (startRange.location != NSNotFound) {
        CGFloat remainIndex = startRange.location + startRange.length;
        NSRange remainRange = NSMakeRange(remainIndex, result.length-remainIndex);
        // search from the remaining text
        NSRange endRange = [result rangeOfString:endFlag options:0 range:remainRange];
        if (endRange.location != NSNotFound) {
            // try to locate the last one <, because we want to find the shortest content
            CGFloat endIndex = endRange.location + endRange.length;
            NSRange matchedRange = NSMakeRange(startRange.location, endIndex - startRange.location);
            // use the NSBackwardsSearch option, so we find the first flag is the last flag we want.
            NSRange nearestRange = [result rangeOfString:startFlag options:NSBackwardsSearch range:matchedRange];
            matchedRange = NSMakeRange(nearestRange.location, endIndex - nearestRange.location);
            [result deleteCharactersInRange:matchedRange];
            // because we have delete the matched content in result,
            // so the remain index must depent on this fact.
            remainIndex = matchedRange.location;// + matchedRange.length - matchedRange.length;
            startRange = [result rangeOfString:startFlag options:0 range:NSMakeRange(remainIndex, result.length - remainIndex)];
        }
        else {
            // ok, have a rest:)
            break;
        }
    }
    return result;
}

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顺便提升一下原题目的测试用例：

@"3<4<55>4>3eee";

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无奖欢迎抓BUG~~

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BTW: 有空用Functional的思想再实现一下看看将会是怎么样的感觉。