How to find caret position in an NSTextView?

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I've an NSTextView with with several semi-colon separated strings. I need to find on which of those strings the caret has been placed. How could I do that?

score 31 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 09 '09 at 15:18

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NSInteger insertionPoint = [[[myTextView selectedRanges] objectAtIndex:0] rangeValue].location;

answered Nov 09 '09 at 15:18

Art Gillespie

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Thank you. This one helped me. :) – Sid Dec 30 '13 at 08:47

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 04 '18 at 15:56

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For Swift 4

let insertionPointIndex = myTextView.selectedRanges.first?.rangeValue.location

answered Dec 04 '18 at 15:56

Jay Mehta

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How to find caret position in an NSTextView?

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