Questions tagged [nsrange]

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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How can I compare case insensitive NSRange ?

I wrote a method to search for people in address book, and I want the method to be able to find "john bigs" even if I call the method [someAdressBook searchName:@"joh"];. My method works for full names, but Im having issues in the partial names,…
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How to find the END_OF_LINE or WHITESPACE character in NSString

I am trying to parse a tweet that may contain a url. I want to format the url with a different color/font within the rest of the tweet. So obviously, the url can be placed anywhere in the text. So I have a category method that looks like this :…
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iOS RangeOfString NSRegularExpressionSearch

i have a small problem, i am using one code snippet to remove html code from iOS string: while ((r = [s rangeOfString:@"<[^>]+>" options:NSRegularExpressionSearch]).location != NSNotFound) s = [s stringByReplacingCharactersInRange:r…
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ios nsrange char from end

Let's say I have: this - is an - example - with some - dashes NSRange will pick up the first instance of "-" with `rangeOfString:@"-" but what if I only want the last one? I'm looking for something that works similar to lastIndexOf in JS. Thanks!
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Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSRangeException' gives Range or index out of bounds'

I am working on barcode app and getting the location from CLController so its giving location,speed and many other thing so i substring that WithRange and getting exception so please kindly give me the reason and what should i do for this? Thanks in…
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Objective-C: Substring and replace

I have a NSString which is a URL. This URL need to be cut: NSString *myURL = @"http://www.test.com/folder/testfolder"; NSString *test = [myURL stringByReplacingCharactersInRange:[myURL rangeOfString:@"/" options:NSBackwardsSearch]…
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Remove the vowels from a string

NSMutableString *stringa = [[NSMutableString alloc] initWithFormat:@"%@", surnameField.text]; if ([stringa length] < 3) { [stringa appendString:@"x"]; } NSMutableString *consonanti = [[NSMutableString alloc] init]; NSCharacterSet *vocali =…
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Subtract multiple ranges from one range

How can we subtract multiple ranges of type Range from one range of type Range? Example: let str = "let <#name#> = <#value#>" let range = str.startIndex..
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Get ranged string from text file without opening file with stringWithContentsOfFile

I'm trying read text from text file. I used stringWithContentsOfFile to do this. pathName = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:sample ofType:@"txt"]; entireContent = [NSString stringWithContentsOfFile:pathName…
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Adding attribute to markdown NSAttributedString goes out of bounds

I have user input which can contain markdown or not. I want to show the user input on screen with rendered markdown. For some reason, I want to add my own static string which does not contain markdown to the end of the user input in the blue…
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Getting ranges of duplicate substrings from string

I'm losing my mind over NSRange, RangeExpression and NSAttributedString functions. What I'm trying to achieve is to get all the ranges of a substring occurring in a text. What I ended up with is this: let ranges: [NSRange] = textsToChange.compactMap…
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NSLog NSRange problem

I have a NSSting resultcontent that contains html data which is dynamic and length of html data is always different according to user input. I could insert my html data in SQLite3 by replacing " from NSString. Now the problem is that SQlite3…
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NSRange How to look for a space OR a return?

Possible Duplicate: How to find and replace symbols in a string? Sorry if the following is really obvious, but I'm just starting to work with NSRange and found the docs not really helpful with my question. I have a string and I would like to look…
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How to create a function when the user stops typing in swift

I have a Ui text field and when the user stops typing after about 1 second I want a check mark to appear. I have the following code: @objc func getHintsFromTextField(textField: UITextField) { print("Hints for textField: \(textField)") …
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ios - Replace/delete characters [• ] in UITextView on Enter

I have a UITextView with a custom NSTextStorage, where I add a list bullet, after each Enter, if the prior line starts with a list bullet. When a user Enter and there is only a list bullet in the beginning of the line where the cursor is, I remove…
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