Is it possible to find the rangeOfString for multiple items at once

Question

I want to find the rangeOfString for multiple items and have tried using an array with a for-in loop, however this just cycles to the last term of the array and uses that for the rangeOfString. Is it possible to use an array with rangeOfString so it searches all terms concurrently or do I have to write the rangeOfString individually for each term.

while true {
    let attempts = ["goodmorning","goodbye", "hello", "hi"]
    for attempt in attempts{

         tru = attempt




    let range = text.rangeOfString(tru, options: [], range: searchRange)

Please post your code, sounds like you might have an incorrectly stated for loop — rudd, Oct 06 '15 at 21:20
Possible duplicate of [Number of occurrences of a substring in an NSString?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2166809/number-of-occurrences-of-a-substring-in-an-nsstring) — chedabob, Oct 06 '15 at 21:40

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 06 '15 at 21:41

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Try this:

let attempts = ["goodmorning","goodbye", "hello", "hi"]
for attempt in attempts {
    if text.rangeOfString(attempt) != nil {
        print("found \(attempt)")
    }
}

answered Oct 06 '15 at 21:41

haluzak

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i get "cannot apply binary operands of type 'NSRange'" – SandySunday Oct 06 '15 at 22:02
@SandySunday I pasted the code to playground and it worked fine, rangeOfString returns `Range?` so `!= nil` should work just fine – haluzak Oct 06 '15 at 22:10

Is it possible to find the rangeOfString for multiple items at once

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