i need a hint cause i don‘t know how to start.
I want to display a string char after char with a short delay but I’m not sure how to do it.
Should i convert the string into an array and display this array in a ForEach or is it possible to do this with string manipulation?
Thanks for every hint :-)
Michael
Here's an example where you can input a String. It will turn it into an array of Strings (for each character), add them onto the screen using an HStack and Text objects. Each Text has initial .opacity of 0.0 and then a function is called that will loop through each Text, turning the .opacity to 1.0.
struct CharView: View {
var characterArray: [String]
#State var characterLoopIndex: Int = -1
let loopDuration: Double = 0.5
init(input: String) {
characterArray = input.map { String($0) }
}
var body: some View {
HStack(spacing: 0) {
ForEach(characterArray.indices) { index in
Text("\(characterArray[index])")
.opacity(characterLoopIndex >= index ? 1 : 0)
.animation(.linear(duration: loopDuration))
}
}
.onAppear(perform: {
startCharacterAnimation()
})
}
func startCharacterAnimation() {
let timer = Timer.scheduledTimer(withTimeInterval: loopDuration, repeats: true) { (timer) in
characterLoopIndex += 1
if characterLoopIndex >= characterArray.count {
timer.invalidate()
}
}
timer.fire()
}
}
Usage:
CharView(input: "This is a test string")
Related
I have a method that detects urls in a string and returns me both the urls and the ranges where they can be found. Everything works perfectly until there are emojis on the string. For example:
"I'm gonna do this callenge as soon as I can swing again 😂😂😂\n http://youtu.be/SW_d3fGz1hk"
Because of the emojis, the url extracted from the text is http://youtu.be/SW_d3fGz1 instead of http://youtu.be/SW_d3fGz1hk. I figured that the easiest solution was to just replace the emojis on the string with whitespace characters (cause I need the range to be correct for some text styling stuff). Problem is, this is extremely hard to accomplish with Swift (most likely my abilities with the Swift String API is lacking).
I've been trying to do it like this but it seems that I cannot create a string from an array of unicode points:
var emojilessStringWithSubstitution: String {
let emojiRanges = [0x1F601...0x1F64F, 0x2702...0x27B0]
let emojiSet = Set(emojiRanges.flatten())
let codePoints: [UnicodeScalar] = self.unicodeScalars.map {
if emojiSet.contains(Int($0.value)) {
return UnicodeScalar(32)
}
return $0
}
return String(codePoints)
}
Am I approaching this problem the wrong way? Is replacing emojis the best solution here? If so, how can I do it?
Swift 5
Don't use this hardcoded way to detect emojis. In Swift 5 you can do it easily
let inputText = "Some 🖐string 😂😂😂 with 👹👹 👹 emoji 🖐"
let textWithoutEmoij = inputText.unicodeScalars
.filter { !$0.properties.isEmojiPresentation }
.reduce("") { $0 + String($1) }
print(textWithoutEmoij) // Some string with emoji
You can use pattern matching (for emoji patterns) to filter out emoji characters from your String.
extension String {
var emojilessStringWithSubstitution: String {
let emojiPatterns = [UnicodeScalar(0x1F601)...UnicodeScalar(0x1F64F),
UnicodeScalar(0x2702)...UnicodeScalar(0x27B0)]
return self.unicodeScalars
.filter { ucScalar in !(emojiPatterns.contains{ $0 ~= ucScalar }) }
.reduce("") { $0 + String($1) }
}
}
/* example usage */
let str = "I'm gonna do this callenge as soon as I can swing again 😂😂😂\n http://youtu.be/SW_d3fGz1hk"
print(str.emojilessStringWithSubstitution)
/* I'm gonna do this callenge as soon as I can swing again
http://youtu.be/SW_d3fGz1hk */
Note that the above only makes use of the emoji intervals as presented in your question, and is in no way representative for all emojis, but the method is general and can swiftly be extended by including additional emoji intervals to the emojiPatterns array.
I realize reading your question again that you'd prefer substituting emojis with whitespace characters, rather than removing them (which the above filtering solution does). We can achieve this by replacing the .filter operation above with a conditional return .map operation instead, much like in your question
extension String {
var emojilessStringWithSubstitution: String {
let emojiPatterns = [UnicodeScalar(0x1F600)...UnicodeScalar(0x1F64F),
UnicodeScalar(0x1F300)...UnicodeScalar(0x1F5FF),
UnicodeScalar(0x1F680)...UnicodeScalar(0x1F6FF),
UnicodeScalar(0x2600)...UnicodeScalar(0x26FF),
UnicodeScalar(0x2700)...UnicodeScalar(0x27BF),
UnicodeScalar(0xFE00)...UnicodeScalar(0xFE0F)]
return self.unicodeScalars
.map { ucScalar in
emojiPatterns.contains{ $0 ~= ucScalar } ? UnicodeScalar(32) : ucScalar }
.reduce("") { $0 + String($1) }
}
}
I the above, the existing emoji intervals has been extended, as per your comment to this post (listing these intervals), such that the emoji check is now possibly exhaustive.
Swift 4:
extension String {
func stringByRemovingEmoji() -> String {
return String(self.filter { !$0.isEmoji() })
}
}
extension Character {
fileprivate func isEmoji() -> Bool {
return Character(UnicodeScalar(UInt32(0x1d000))!) <= self && self <= Character(UnicodeScalar(UInt32(0x1f77f))!)
|| Character(UnicodeScalar(UInt32(0x2100))!) <= self && self <= Character(UnicodeScalar(UInt32(0x26ff))!)
}
}
Emojis are classified as symbols by Unicode. Character sets are typically used in searching operations. So we will use Character sets a property that is symbols.
var emojiString = "Hey there 🖐, welcome"
emojiString = emojiString.components(separatedBy: CharacterSet.symbols).joined()
print(emojiString)
Output is
Hey there , welcome
Now observe the emoji is replaced by a white space so there is two white space and we replace it by the following way
emojiString.replacingOccurrences(of: " ", with: " ")
The above method replace parameter of: "two white space" to with: "single white space"
Getting all emoji is more complicated than you would think. For more info on how to figure out which characters are emoji, check out this stackoverflow post or this article.
Building on that information, I would propose to use the extension on Character to more easily let us understand which characters are emoji. Then add a String extension to easily replace found emoji with another character.
extension Character {
var isSimpleEmoji: Bool {
guard let firstProperties = unicodeScalars.first?.properties else {
return false
}
return unicodeScalars.count == 1 &&
(firstProperties.isEmojiPresentation ||
firstProperties.generalCategory == .otherSymbol)
}
var isCombinedIntoEmoji: Bool {
return unicodeScalars.count > 1 &&
unicodeScalars.contains {
$0.properties.isJoinControl ||
$0.properties.isVariationSelector
}
}
var isEmoji: Bool {
return isSimpleEmoji || isCombinedIntoEmoji
}
}
extension String {
func replaceEmoji(with character: Character) -> String {
return String(map { $0.isEmoji ? character : $0 })
}
}
Using it would simply become:
"Some string 😂😂😂 with emoji".replaceEmoji(with: " ")
I found that the solutions given above did not work for certain characters such as 🏋️🏻♂️ and 🧰.
To find the emoji ranges, using regex I converted the full list of emoji characters to a file with just hex values. Then I converted them to decimal format and sorted them. Finally, I wrote a script to find the ranges.
Here is the final Swift extension for isEmoji().
extension Character {
func isEmoji() -> Bool {
let emojiRanges = [
(8205, 11093),
(12336, 12953),
(65039, 65039),
(126980, 129685)
]
let codePoint = self.unicodeScalars[self.unicodeScalars.startIndex].value
for emojiRange in emojiRanges {
if codePoint >= emojiRange.0 && codePoint <= emojiRange.1 {
return true
}
}
return false
}
}
For reference, here are the python scripts I wrote to parse the hex strings to integers and then find the ranges.
convert-hex-to-decimal.py
decimals = []
with open('hex.txt') as hexfile:
for line in hexfile:
num = int(line, 16)
if num < 256:
continue
decimals.append(num)
decimals = list(set(decimals))
decimals.sort()
with open('decimal.txt', 'w') as decimalfile:
for decimal in decimals:
decimalfile.write(str(decimal) + "\n")
make-ranges.py
first_line = True
range_start = 0
prev = 0
with open('decimal.txt') as hexfile:
for line in hexfile:
if first_line:
prev = int(line)
range_start = prev
first_line = False
continue
curr = int(line)
if prev + 1000 < curr: # 100 is abitrary to reduce number of ranges
print("(" + str(range_start) + ", " + str(prev) + ")")
range_start = curr
prev = curr
Don't hard-code the range of emojis, use this instead.
func 去除表情符号(字符串:String) -> String {
let 转换为Unicode = 字符串.unicodeScalars//https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swift/string
let 去除表情后的结果 = 转换为Unicode.filter { (item) -> Bool in
let 判断是否表情 = item.properties.isEmoji
return !判断是否表情//是表情就不保留
}
return String(去除表情后的结果)
}
let str = "tHIS is A test"
let swapped_case = "This IS a TEST"
Swift noob here, how to do the second statement programatically?
This function works with all upper/lowercase characters
defined in Unicode, even those from "foreign" languages such as Ä or ć:
func swapCases(_ str : String) -> String {
var result = ""
for c in str.characters { // Swift 1: for c in str {
let s = String(c)
let lo = s.lowercased() //Swift 1 & 2: s.lowercaseString
let up = s.uppercased() //Swift 1 & 2: s.uppercaseString
result += (s == lo) ? up : lo
}
return result
}
Example:
let str = "tHIS is a test ÄöÜ ĂćŒ Α" // The last character is a capital Greek Alpha
let swapped_case = swapCases(str)
print(swapped_case)
// This IS A TEST äÖü ăĆœ α
Use switch statement in-range checks to determine letter case, and use NSString-bridged methods to convert accordingly.
let str = "tHIS is A test"
let swapped_case = "This IS a TEST"
func swapCase(string: String) -> String {
var swappedCaseString: String = ""
for character in string {
switch character {
case "a"..."z":
let uppercaseCharacter = (String(character) as NSString).uppercaseString
swappedCaseString += uppercaseCharacter
case "A"..."Z":
let lowercaseCharacter = (String(character) as NSString).lowercaseString
swappedCaseString += lowercaseCharacter
default:
swappedCaseString += String(character)
}
}
return swappedCaseString
}
swapCase(str)
I'm a bit too late but this works too :-)
let str = "tHIS is A test"
var res = ""
for c in str {
if contains("ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ", c) {
res += "\(c)".lowercaseString
} else {
res += "\(c)".uppercaseString
}
}
res
In Swift 5 I achieved it by creating a function which iterates through each character of the string, and using string methods to change each character I appended each character back into a new variable:
func reverseCase(string: String) -> String {
var newCase = ""
for char in string {
if char.isLowercase {
newCase.append(char.uppercased())
}
else if char.isUppercase {
newCase.append(char.lowercased())
}
else {
newCase.append(char)
}
}
return newCase
}
Then just pass your string through to the function when you call it in a print statement:
print(reverseCase(string: str))
You already have plenty of good succinct answers but here’s an over-elaborate one for fun.
Really this is a job for map – iterate over a collection (in this case String) and do a thing to each element (here, each Character). Except map takes any collection, but only gives you back an array, which you’d have to then turn into a String again.
But here’s a version of map that, given an extensible collection, gives you back that same kind of extensible collection.
(It does have the limitation of needing both collections to contain the same type, but that’s fine for strings. You could make it return a different type, but then you’d have to tell it which type you wanted i.e. map(s, transform) as String which would be annoying)
func map<C: ExtensibleCollectionType>(source: C, transform: (C.Generator.Element) -> C.Generator.Element) -> C {
var result = C()
for elem in source {
result.append(transform(elem))
}
return result
}
Then to write the transform function, first here’s an extension to character similar to the other answers. It does seem quite unsatisfying that you have to convert to a string just to uppercase a character, is there really no good (international characterset-friendly) way to do this?
extension Character {
var uppercaseCharacter: Character {
let s = String(self).uppercaseString
return s[s.startIndex]
}
var lowercaseCharacter: Character {
let s = String(self).lowercaseString
return s[s.startIndex]
}
}
And the function to flip the case. What I wonder is whether this pattern matching is international-friendly. It seems to be – "A"..."Z" ~= "Ä" returns true.
func flipCase(c: Character) -> Character {
switch c {
case "A"..."Z":
return c.lowercaseCharacter
case "a"..."z":
return c.uppercaseCharacter
default:
return c
}
}
Finally:
let s = map("Hello", flipCase)
// s is a String = "hELLO"
I hope this helps. inputString and resultString are the input and output respectively.
let inputString = "Example"
let outputString = inputString.characters.map { (character) -> Character in
let string = String(character)
let lower = string.lowercased()
let upper = string.uppercased()
return (string == lower) ? Character(upper) : Character(lower)
}
let resultString = String(outputString)
I have an C struct (old library, blah blah blah) which contains an C string, now I need to convert CFString and Swift strings into this c string. Something like
struct Product{
char name[50];
char code[20];
}
So I'm trying to assign it as
productName.getCString(&myVarOfStructProduct.name, maxLength: 50, encoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding)
but the compiler is giving me the following error: cannot convert type (int8, int8, int8....) to [CChar].
A possible solution:
withUnsafeMutablePointer(&myVarOfStructProduct.name) {
strlcpy(UnsafeMutablePointer($0), productName, UInt(sizeofValue(myVarOfStructProduct.name)))
}
Inside the block, $0 is a (mutable) pointer to the tuple. This pointer is
converted to an UnsafeMutablePointer<Int8> as expected by the
BSD library function strlcpy().
It also uses the fact that the Swift string productName is automatically
to UnsafePointer<UInt8>
as explained in String value to UnsafePointer<UInt8> function parameter behavior. As mentioned in the comments in that
thread, this is done by creating a temporary UInt8 array (or sequence?).
So alternatively you could enumerate the UTF-8 bytes explicitly and put them
into the destination:
withUnsafeMutablePointer(&myVarOfStructProduct.name) {
tuplePtr -> Void in
var uint8Ptr = UnsafeMutablePointer<UInt8>(tuplePtr)
let size = sizeofValue(myVarOfStructProduct.name)
var idx = 0
if size == 0 { return } // C array has zero length.
for u in productName.utf8 {
if idx == size - 1 { break }
uint8Ptr[idx++] = u
}
uint8Ptr[idx] = 0 // NUL-terminate the C string in the array.
}
Yet another possible solution (with an intermediate NSData object):
withUnsafeMutablePointer(&myVarOfStructProduct.name) {
tuplePtr -> Void in
let tmp = productName + String(UnicodeScalar(0)) // Add NUL-termination
let data = tmp.dataUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding, allowLossyConversion: true)!
data.getBytes(tuplePtr, length: sizeofValue(myVarOfStructProduct.name))
}
Update for Swift 3:
withUnsafeMutablePointer(to: &myVarOfStructProduct.name) {
$0.withMemoryRebound(to: Int8.self, capacity: MemoryLayout.size(ofValue: myVarOfStructProduct.name)) {
_ = strlcpy($0, productName, MemoryLayout.size(ofValue: myVarOfStructProduct.name))
}
}
Is it possible to compare two String.Index values in Swift? I'm trying to process a string character by character, and several times I need to check if I am at the end of the string. I've tried just doing
while (currentIndex < string.endIndex) {
//do things...
currentIndex = currentIndex.successor()
}
Which complained about type conversions. Then, I tried defining and overload for < as such:
#infix func <(lhs: String.Index, rhs: String.Index) -> Bool {
var ret = true //what goes here?
return ret
}
Which gets rid of compilation errors, but I have no clue what to do in order to compare lhs and rhs properly. Is this the way I should go about using String.Index, or is there a better way to compare them?
The simplest option is the distance() function:
var string = "Hello World"
var currentIndex = string.startIndex
while (distance(currentIndex, string.endIndex) >= 0) {
println("currentIndex: \(currentIndex)")
currentIndex = currentIndex.successor()
}
Beware distance() has O(N) performance, so avoid it for large strings. However, the entire String class doesn't currently handle large strings anyway — you should probably switch to CFString if performance is critical.
Using an operator overload is a bad idea, but just as a learning exercise this is how you'd do it:
var string = "Hello World"
var currentIndex = string.startIndex
#infix func <(lhs: String.Index, rhs: String.Index) -> Bool {
return distance(lhs, rhs) > 0
}
while (currentIndex < string.endIndex) {
currentIndex = currentIndex.successor()
}
String indexes support = and !=. String indexes are an opaque type, not integers and can not be compared like integers.
Use: if (currentIndex != string.endIndex)
var currentIndex = string.startIndex
while (currentIndex != string.endIndex) {
println("currentIndex: \(currentIndex)")
currentIndex = currentIndex.successor()
}
I believe this REPL/Playground example should illuminate what you (and others) need to know about working with the String.Index concept.
// This will be our working example
let exampleString = "this is a string"
// And here we'll call successor a few times to get an index partway through the example
var someIndexInTheMiddle = exampleString.startIndex
for _ in 1...5 {
someIndexInTheMiddle = someIndexInTheMiddle.successor()
}
// And here we will iterate that string and detect when our current index is relative in one of three different possible ways to the character selected previously
println("\n\nsomeIndexInTheMiddle = \(exampleString[someIndexInTheMiddle])")
for var index: String.Index = exampleString.startIndex; index != exampleString.endIndex; index = index.successor() {
println(" - \(exampleString[index])")
if index != exampleString.startIndex && index.predecessor() == someIndexInTheMiddle {
println("current character comes after someIndexInTheMiddle")
} else if index == someIndexInTheMiddle {
println("current character is the one indicated by someIndexInTheMiddle")
} else if index != exampleString.endIndex && index.successor() == someIndexInTheMiddle {
println("Current character comes before someIndexinTheMiddle")
}
}
Hopefully that provides the necessary information.
Whatever way you decide to iterator over a String, you will immediately want to capture the iteration in a function that can be repeatedly invoked while using a closure applied to each string character. As in:
extension String {
func each (f: (Character) -> Void) {
for var index = self.startIndex;
index < self.endIndex;
index = index.successor() {
f (string[index])
}
}
}
Apple already provides these for C-Strings and will for general strings as soon as they get character access solidified.
I would like to emulate C's sprintf("%02d", x); in Dart, but I can't find string formatting, only string interpolation.
String interpolation covers most of your needs. If you want to format numbers directly, there is also num.toStringAsPrecision().
I took a different approach to this issue: by padding the string directly, I don't have to use any libraries (mainly because the intl library seems to be discontinued):
x.toString().padLeft(2, "0");
Would be the equivalent of sprintf("%02d", x);
The intl library provides several helpers to format values.
See the API documentation at http://api.dartlang.org/docs/releases/latest/intl.html
Here is an example on how to convert a number into a two character string:
import 'package:intl/intl.dart';
main() {
var twoDigits = new NumberFormat("00", "en_US");
print(twoDigits.format(new Duration(seconds: 8)));
}
A String.format method does not currently exists but there is a bug/feature request for adding it.
Here is my implementation of String.format for Dart. It is not perfect but works good enough for me:
static String format(String fmt,List<Object> params) {
int matchIndex = 0;
String replace(Match m) {
if (matchIndex<params.length) {
switch (m[4]) {
case "f":
num val = params[matchIndex++];
String str;
if (m[3]!=null && m[3].startsWith(".")) {
str = val.toStringAsFixed(int.parse(m[3].substring(1)));
} else {
str = val.toString();
}
if (m[2]!=null && m[2].startsWith("0")) {
if (val<0) {
str = "-"+str.substring(1).padLeft(int.parse(m[2]),"0");
} else {
str = str.padLeft(int.parse(m[2]),"0");
}
}
return str;
case "d":
case "x":
case "X":
int val = params[matchIndex++];
String str = (m[4]=="d")?val.toString():val.toRadixString(16);
if (m[2]!=null && m[2].startsWith("0")) {
if (val<0) {
str = "-"+str.substring(1).padLeft(int.parse(m[2]),"0");
} else {
str = str.padLeft(int.parse(m[2]),"0");
}
}
return (m[4]=="X")?str.toUpperCase():str.toLowerCase();
case "s":
return params[matchIndex++].toString();
}
} else {
throw new Exception("Missing parameter for string format");
}
throw new Exception("Invalid format string: "+m[0].toString());
}
Test output follows:
format("%d", [1]) // 1
format("%02d", [2]) // 02
format("%.2f", [3.5]) // 3.50
format("%08.2f", [4]) // 00004.00
format("%s %s", ["A","B"]) // A B
format("%x", [63]) // 3f
format("%04x", [63]) // 003f
format("%X", [63]) //3F
Yes, Dart has a sprintf package:
https://pub.dev/packages/sprintf.
It is modeled after C's sprintf.
See a format package. It is similar to format() from Python. It is a new package. Needs testing.