> On 2 Sep 2016, at 20:00, Jim Adams <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Sep 2, 2016, at 5:17 AM, Gerriet M. Denkmann <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> How to translate this into Swift (current version, i.e. the one before 3.0):
>> 
>> UITextView *uitv = …
>> NSRange selectedRange = uitv.selectedRange;
>> NSString *textString = uitv.string;
>> NSString *selectedString = [ textString substringWithRange: selectedRange ];
>> 
>> Looks simple, but I have now tried for more than one hour.

The solution in Swift I have found uses NSString to cope with NSRange:

// uitv is UITextView
let swiftString = uitv.text                             
let nsString = swiftString as NSString
let selectedNSRange = uitv.selectedRange
let selectedText = nsString.substringWithRange( selectedNSRange )

Gerriet.


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