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A structure used to describe a portion of a series—such as characters in a string or objects in an NSArray object.

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NSRange to Range

How can I convert NSRange to Range in Swift? I want to use the following UITextFieldDelegate method: func textField(textField: UITextField!, shouldChangeCharactersInRange range: NSRange, replacementString string:…
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NSRange from Swift Range?

Problem: NSAttributedString takes an NSRange while I'm using a Swift String that uses Range let text = "Long paragraph saying something goes here!" let textRange = text.startIndex..
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How shouldChangeCharactersInRange works in Swift?

I'm using shouldChangeCharactersInRange as a way of using on-the-fly type search. However I'm having a problem, shouldChangeCharactersInRange gets called before the text field actually updates: In Objective C, I solved this using using…
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Shortcut to generate an NSRange for entire length of NSString?

Is there a short way to say "entire string" rather than typing out: NSMakeRange(0, myString.length)] It seems silly that the longest part of this kind of code is the least important (because I usually want to search/replace within entire…
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Make part of a UILabel bold in Swift

I have a UILabel I've made programmatically as: var label = UILabel() I've then declared some styling for the label, including a font, such as: label.frame = CGRect(x: 20, y: myHeaderView.frame.height / 2, width: 300, height: 30) label.font =…
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How do I store an NSRange in a NSMutableArray or other container?

Here's what I want to do: NSRange r = NSMakeRange(0,5); id a = [NSMutableArray a]; [a addObject: r]; // but NSRange is not a NSObject * With a boolean, I'd use code like this: [a addObject: [NSNumber numberWithBool: YES]]; or with an integer: [a…
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Create UITextRange from NSRange

I need to find the pixel-frame for different ranges in a textview. I'm using the - (CGRect)firstRectForRange:(UITextRange *)range; to do it. However I can't find out how to actually create a UITextRange. Basically this is what I'm looking for: -…
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NSRangeException Out of Bounds error

I am setting the attributed text of a label, and I am getting this strange error: Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSRangeException', reason: 'NSMutableRLEArray replaceObjectsInRange:withObject:length:: Out of bounds'. I have never seen…
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How to capture last 4 characters from NSString

I am accepting an NSString of random size from a UITextField and passing it over to a method that I am creating that will capture only the last 4 characters entered in the string. I have looked through NSString Class Reference library and the only…
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Convert selectedTextRange UITextRange to NSRange

How can I convert a UITextRange object to an NSRange? I've seen plenty of SO posts about going the other direction but that's the opposite of what I need. I'm using the UITextRange selectedTextRange which is a property of a UITextView. It returns a…
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Extracting a string with substringWithRange: gives "index out of bounds"

When I try to extract a string from a larger string it gives me a range or index out of bounds error. I might be overlooking something really obvious here. Thanks. NSString *title = [TBXML textForElement:title1]; TBXMLElement * description1 = [TBXML…
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Difference between NSRange and NSMakeRange

Is there any difference between: NSRange(location: 0, length: 5) and: NSMakeRange(0, 5) Because Swiftlint throws a warning when I use NSMakeRange, but I don't know why. Thanks for the Help :-)
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How to print a NSRange in NSLog

Say my range is created as NSRange myRange = {0,100}; How do I print myRange in NSLog? The following is not working NSLog(@"my range is %@",myRange);
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Getting index of a character in NSString with offset & using substring in Objective-C

I have a string! NSString *myString=[NSString stringWithFormat:@"This is my lovely string"]; What I want to do is: Assuming the first character in the string is at index 0. Go to the 11th character (That is 'l' in the above case), and find the…
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NSAttributedString and emojis: issue with positions and lengths

I'm coloring some parts of a text coming from an API (think "@mention" as on Twitter) using NSAttributedString. The API gives me the text and an array of entities representing the parts of the text that are mentions (or links, tags, etc) which…
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