How can i get the position of a specific string in UILabel?

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finding location of specific characters in UILabel on iPhone

How can i get the position of a specific string/substring in UILabel ? The UILabel is a multiline label and also has /n characters. Ultimately I should be able to draw another view in place of the position retrieved.

If not UILabel, could a UITextView be used to achieve results as expected above?

Thanks in advance.

Check this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3191049/finding-location-of-specific-characters-in-uilabel-on-iphone — riti, Oct 16 '12 at 09:15

score -1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 16 '12 at 09:56

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This code may help you in building logic for the same..

@interface NSString ( containsCategory )
- (BOOL) containsString: (NSString*) substring;
@end

// - - - - 

@implementation NSString ( containsCategory )

- (BOOL) containsString: (NSString*) substring
{    
    NSRange range = [self rangeOfString : substring];
    BOOL found = ( range.location != NSNotFound );
    return found;
}

@end

answered Oct 16 '12 at 09:56

iCreative

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All you need to do is to pass the label.text to the string and rest will do take care by this code. – iCreative Oct 16 '12 at 10:00
how your answer will ask the question??? – Dmitriy Kalachniuk Sep 17 '14 at 08:40

How can i get the position of a specific string in UILabel?

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