I found this question: I'm implementing a hashtag recognizer in UITextView but it never highlights two words with the same beginning?. By doing that I want to check the user's run time input text on the text view and each time user types a #hashtag, It will automatically highlight after adding a comma.
Code:-
import UIKit
class ViewController: UIViewController,UITextViewDelegate {
@IBOutlet weak var txtView: UITextView!
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
txtView.delegate = self
}
func textViewDidChange(_ textView: UITextView) {
textView.resolveHashTags()
}
}
extension UITextView {
func resolveHashTags() {
let nsText = NSString(string: self.text)
let words = nsText.components(separatedBy: CharacterSet(charactersIn: "#ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789_").inverted)
let attrString = NSMutableAttributedString()
attrString.setAttributedString(self.attributedText)
for word in words {
if word.count < 3 {
continue
}
if word.hasPrefix("#") {
let matchRange:NSRange = nsText.range(of: word as String)
let stringifiedWord = word.dropFirst()
if let firstChar = stringifiedWord.unicodeScalars.first, NSCharacterSet.decimalDigits.contains(firstChar) {
} else {
attrString.addAttribute(NSAttributedString.Key.link, value: "hash:\(stringifiedWord)", range: matchRange)
}
}
}
self.attributedText = attrString
}
}
Current ScreenShot:-
Question:- Can someone please explain to me how to highlight the text after adding a comma? I've tried to implement by above code but no results yet.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.