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Peter Silie
Peter Silie

Reputation: 875

Swift 3: String search backwards

I want to search backwards in a string. But all examples I found are not running on current Swift 3.0. ".BackwardsSearch" is not an option available on my XCode 8. Any idea, how this can be done? Example:

let rPos = rIndex(sourceString, searchString)

or 

let rPos = sourceString.rindex(of: searchString)

Upvotes: 6

Views: 3254

Answers (1)

DavidA
DavidA

Reputation: 3172

XCode autocomplete will suggest this:

let rpos = sourceString.range(of:searchString, options:String.CompareOptions.backwards, range:nil, locale:nil)

However, range and locale have defaults of nil, so you can omit them:

let rpos = sourceString.range(of:searchString, options:String.CompareOptions.backwards)

And options is of the type String.CompareOptions so you only need the last part:

let rpos = sourceString.range(of:searchString, options:.backwards)

(Thanks @MartinR for pointing out the shortened versions)

Upvotes: 9

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