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How to get start index and end index (as int) of substring in Swift?

in Swift on March 4, 2020

We can use distance(from:to:) method to get the start index and end index in Swift.

distance(from:to:) -> Returns the distance between two indices.

Declaration


func distance(from start: String.Index, to end: String.Index) -> String.IndexDistance

Example:


import Foundation

let sentence = "This article is written by Yogesh Chauhan"
if let range = sentence.range(of: "Yogesh") {
    let startIndex = sentence.distance(from: sentence.startIndex, to: range.lowerBound)
    let endIndex = sentence.distance(from: sentence.startIndex, to: range.upperBound)
    print(startIndex)
    print(endIndex)
}

//output

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