How to use addAttribute in Swift

Question

I'm trying to add links to UITextViews, so I am following the code in this post. The relevant Objective-C code is

NSMutableAttributedString *attributedString = [[NSMutableAttributedString alloc] initWithString:@"This is an example by @marcelofabri_"];
[attributedString addAttribute:NSLinkAttributeName
                         value:@"username://marcelofabri_"
                         range:[[attributedString string] rangeOfString:@"@marcelofabri_"]];

But when I try this in Swift 2 as

var attributedString = NSMutableAttributedString(string: "This is an example by @marcelofabri_")
attributedString.addAttribute(NSLinkAttributeName, value: "username://marcelofabri_", range: attributedString.string.rangeOfString("/marcelofabri_"))

I get the error

Cannot invoke 'addAttribute' with an argument list of type '(String, value: String, range: Range?)'

What do I need to change to get this to work?

score 34 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 26 '15 at 14:11

34

Try using NSString to find range instead of Swift String:

var attributedString = NSMutableAttributedString(string: "This is an example by @marcelofabri_")
attributedString.addAttribute(NSLinkAttributeName, value: "username://marcelofabri_", range: (attributedString.string as NSString).rangeOfString("/marcelofabri_"))

answered Aug 26 '15 at 14:11

egor.zhdan

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The problem was I was using `NSAttributedString` instead of `NSMutableAttributedString` – Mohammad Zaid Pathan Sep 05 '17 at 07:56

score 3 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:10

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You are using Range rather than NSRange as required. Have a look at:

NSRange from Swift Range?

edited May 23 '17 at 12:10

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answered Aug 26 '15 at 14:06

Yarneo

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score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Mar 25 '22 at 07:06

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How to use addAttribute in Swift

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