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Sam S.
Sam S.

Reputation: 75

Swift: User-inputted hex string to unicode character

I am having trouble converting a hex string that is inputted by the user (i.e. "1F436") to a unicode character I can work with.

From reading the Swift documentation, I learned how to print unicode characters using 'print(\u{1F436})' and how to to figure out the decimal value of unicode characters in a string by using for-in loops.

But how do I go about creating a unicode character variable from a string that contains its hexadecimal number?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 881

Answers (1)

Kametrixom
Kametrixom

Reputation: 14973

Very simple, just like this:

let inputText = "1F436"
let character = Int(inputText, radix: 16).map{ Character(UnicodeScalar($0)) }

character is an optional Character depending on whether the number was successfully parsed

The notation "\u{1F436}" is only possible to use from the programmer, as it gets translated to the actual character at compile time

Upvotes: 5

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