UITextView selectionRange strange behavior with plus sign "+"

Question

If I have a plus sign in my UITextView, and I try to set the selectionRange to immediately precede it (i.e, put the cursor before the plus sign), it automatically moves to the next space. As far as I can tell, this is specifically for plus signs; for example, equals signs and minus signs do not exhibit this behavior.

Can anyone explain what is going on?

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 17 '11 at 15:34

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My guess is that the + sign may be messing with the phone number detection. Do you have Phone Number detection active for that UITextView? have you tried disabling it?

answered Jan 17 '11 at 15:34

fsaint

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Never enabled it, but for good measure just tried setting dataDetectorTypes to UIDataDetectorTypeNone. No help. – William Jockusch Jan 17 '11 at 15:49

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 18 '11 at 21:28

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I reported this to Apple as a bug in iOS 4.2. They asked me to try it in the iOS4.3 beta. It appears to be fixed.

answered Jan 18 '11 at 21:28

William Jockusch

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UITextView selectionRange strange behavior with plus sign "+"

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