Separate Strings from Array for HTML use in Xcode 7 Swift 2

I'm using Xcode 7.1 and Swift 2. I have an array var ingredientsList: [String] = [] that will contain data that is displayed in a UITableView. I want to separate each String in the array and assign to a new string variable to later add to some html. I looked here and it was very confusing and also dealt with int. I tried to apply it with mine, but obviously using string instead but it didn't work. Can someone please help me? An example of the array data is: cheese, pepperoni, sauce, olives, onions, sausage. Thank you.

My ViewController with a UITableView is:

func tableView(tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {

    let cellIdentifier = "IngredientTableViewCell"

    let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier(cellIdentifier, forIndexPath: indexPath) as! IngredientTableViewCell

    cell.ingredientLabel.text = ingredientsList[indexPath.row]

    // TOTAL of 50 ingredients Max
    if indexPath.row == 0 {
        if ingredientsList[0] != "" {
            ingredientItem0 = ingredientsList[0]
        }
    }
    if indexPath.row == 1 {
        if ingredientsList[1] != "" {
            ingredientItem1 = ingredientsList[1]
        }
    }
    if indexPath.row == 2 {
        if ingredientsList[2] != "" {
            ingredientItem2 = ingredientsList[2]
        }
    }
    if indexPath.row == 3 {
        if ingredientsList[3] != "" {
            ingredientItem3 = ingredientsList[3]
        }
    }
    if indexPath.row == 4 {
        if ingredientsList[4] != "" {
            ingredientItem4 = ingredientsList[4]
        }
    }
    if indexPath.row == 5 {
        if ingredientsList[5] != "" {
            ingredientItem5 = ingredientsList[5]
        }
    }

    // ... it goes all the way down to a total of 50 ingredients

    return cell

}

I have a UIBarButtonItem that performs an action of exporting the [String] data as a PDF and allows the user to email it out.

My export code is:

    let html =
    /*HEADING*/"<head><center><br><h1><b>** <u>\(nameTextField.text!)</b></u> **</h1></br></center></head>" +
    /*DIVIDER*/"<center>- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -</center>" +
    /*BODY*/"<p><font size=5><br>\(ingredientItem0)</br> <br>\(ingredientItem1)</br> <br>\(ingredientItem2)</br> <br>\(ingredientItem3)</br> <br>\(ingredientItem4)</br> <br>\(ingredientItem5)</br> ... <br>\(ingredientItem49)</br></font></p>"

    let fmt = UIMarkupTextPrintFormatter(markupText: html)

    // Assign print formatter to UIPrintPageRenderer

    let render = UIPrintPageRenderer()
    render.addPrintFormatter(fmt, startingAtPageAtIndex: 0)

    // Assign paperRect and printableRect

    let page = CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 595.2, height: 841.8) // A4, 72 dpi
    let printable = CGRectInset(page, 0, 0)

    render.setValue(NSValue(CGRect: page), forKey: "paperRect")
    render.setValue(NSValue(CGRect: printable), forKey: "printableRect")

    // Create PDF context and draw

    let pdfData = NSMutableData()
    UIGraphicsBeginPDFContextToData(pdfData, CGRectZero, nil)

    for i in 1...render.numberOfPages() {

        UIGraphicsBeginPDFPage();
        let bounds = UIGraphicsGetPDFContextBounds()
        render.drawPageAtIndex(i - 1, inRect: bounds)
    }

    UIGraphicsEndPDFContext();

Right now, in my UITableView code above, I have it assign each indexPath.row to a String variable I've created. I have it set for up to 50 ingredients. I don't like that I've set a limit and if the user only has 4 ingredients and or more than 50. In my pdf export, it acts like there are 50 and prints blank lines for them. So a potentially short recipe will have blank pages from the blank ingredients that I assigned that weren't there. Make sense? It's ugly, but I don't know how else to do it.

Solution

For loop through your ingredients list in your export code and append your html that wraps your ingredient list item to the html

 var html =
/*HEADING*/"<head><center><br><h1><b>** <u>\(nameTextField.text!)</b></u> **</h1></br></center></head>" +
/*DIVIDER*/"<center>- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -</center>" +
/*BODY*/"<p><font size=5>"

 for var i = 0; i < ingredientsList.length; i++ {
    html += "<br>\(ingredientsList[i] as String)</br> "
 }

Something like that....