SwiftString alternatives and similar libraries
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PhoneNumberKit
A Swift framework for parsing, formatting and validating international phone numbers. Inspired by Google's libphonenumber. -
TwitterTextEditor
A standalone, flexible API that provides a full-featured rich text editor for iOS applications. -
Atributika
Convert text with HTML tags, links, hashtags, mentions into NSAttributedString. Make them clickable with UILabel drop-in replacement. -
Mustard
🌭 Mustard is a Swift library for tokenizing strings when splitting by whitespace doesn't cut it. -
PrediKit
An NSPredicate DSL for iOS, OSX, tvOS, & watchOS. Inspired by SnapKit and lovingly written in Swift. -
AttributedTextView
Easiest way to create an attributed UITextView (with support for multiple links and from html) -
OysterKit
OysterKit is a framework that provides a native Swift scanning, lexical analysis, and parsing capabilities. In addition it provides a language that can be used to rapidly define the rules used by OysterKit called STLR
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README
SwiftString
SwiftString is a lightweight string extension for Swift. This library was motivated by having to search StackOverflow for common string operations, and wanting them to be in one place with test coverage.
Installation
SwiftString is available through CocoaPods. To install it, simply add the following line to your Podfile:
pod "SwiftString"
Usage
import SwiftString
Methods
between(left, right)
"<a>foo</a>".between("<a>", "</a>") // "foo"
"<a><a>foo</a></a>".between("<a>", "</a>") // "<a>foo</a>"
"<a>foo".between("<a>", "</a>") // nil
"Some strings } are very {weird}, dont you think?".between("{", "}") // "weird"
"<a></a>".between("<a>", "</a>") // nil
"<a>foo</a>".between("<a>", "<a>") // nil
camelize()
"os version".camelize() // "osVersion"
"HelloWorld".camelize() // "helloWorld"
"someword With Characters".camelize() // "somewordWithCharacters"
"data_rate".camelize() // "dataRate"
"background-color".camelize() // "backgroundColor"
capitalize()
"hello world".capitalize() // "Hello World"
chompLeft(string)
"foobar".chompLeft("foo") // "bar"
"foobar".chompLeft("bar") // "foo"
chompRight(string)
"foobar".chompRight("bar") // "foo"
"foobar".chompRight("foo") // "bar"
collapseWhitespace()
" String \t libraries are \n\n\t fun\n! ".collapseWhitespace() // "String libraries are fun !")
contains(substring)
"foobar".contains("foo") // true
"foobar".contains("bar") // true
"foobar".contains("something") // false
count(string)
"hi hi ho hey hihey".count("hi") // 3
decodeHTML()
"The Weekend ‘King Of The Fall’".decodeHTML() // "The Weekend ‘King Of The Fall’"
"<strong> 4 < 5 & 3 > 2 .</strong> Price: 12 €. @ ".decodeHTML() // "<strong> 4 < 5 & 3 > 2 .</strong> Price: 12 €. @ "
"this is so "good"".decodeHTML() // "this is so \"good\""
endsWith(suffix)
"hello world".endsWith("world") // true
"hello world".endsWith("foo") // false
ensureLeft(prefix)
"/subdir".ensureLeft("/") // "/subdir"
"subdir".ensureLeft("/") // "/subdir"
ensureRight(suffix)
"subdir/".ensureRight("/") // "subdir/"
"subdir".ensureRight("/") // "subdir/"
indexOf(substring)
"hello".indexOf("hell"), // 0
"hello".indexOf("lo"), // 3
"hello".indexOf("world") // nil
initials()
"First".initials(), // "F"
"First Last".initials(), // "FL"
"First Middle1 Middle2 Middle3 Last".initials() // "FMMML"
initialsFirstAndLast()
"First Last".initialsFirstAndLast(), // "FL"
"First Middle1 Middle2 Middle3 Last".initialsFirstAndLast() // "FL"
isAlpha()
"fdafaf3".isAlpha() // false
"afaf".isAlpha() // true
"dfdf--dfd".isAlpha() // false
isAlphaNumeric()
"afaf35353afaf".isAlphaNumeric() // true
"FFFF99fff".isAlphaNumeric() // true
"99".isAlphaNumeric() // true
"afff".isAlphaNumeric() // true
"-33".isAlphaNumeric() // false
"aaff..".isAlphaNumeric() // false
isEmpty()
" ".isEmpty() // true
"\t\t\t ".isEmpty() // true
"\n\n".isEmpty() // true
"helo".isEmpty() // false
isNumeric()
"abc".isNumeric() // false
"123a".isNumeric() // false
"1".isNumeric() // true
"22".isNumeric() // true
"33.0".isNumeric() // true
"-63.0".isNumeric() // true
join(sequence)
",".join([1,2,3]) // "1,2,3"
",".join([]) // ""
",".join(["a","b","c"]) // "a,b,c"
"! ".join(["hey","who are you?"]) // "hey! who are you?"
latinize()
"šÜįéïöç".latinize() // "sUieioc"
"crème brûlée".latinize() // "creme brulee"
lines()
"test".lines() // ["test"]
"test\nsentence".lines() // ["test", "sentence"]
"test \nsentence".lines() // ["test ", "sentence"]
pad(n, string)
"hello".pad(2) // " hello "
"hello".pad(1, "\t") // "\thello\t"
padLeft(n, string)
"hello".padLeft(10) // " hello"
"what?".padLeft(2, "!") // "!!what?"
padRight(n, string)
"hello".padRight(10) // "hello "
"hello".padRight(2, "!") // "hello!!"
startsWith(prefix)
"hello world".startsWith("hello") // true
"hello world".startsWith("foo") // false
split(separator)
"hello world".split(" ")[0] // "hello"
"hello world".split(" ")[1] // "world"
"helloworld".split(" ")[0] // "helloworld"
times(n)
"hi".times(3) // "hihihi"
" ".times(10) // " "
toBool()
"asdwads".toBool() // nil
"true".toBool() // true
"false".toBool() // false
toFloat()
"asdwads".toFloat() // nil
"2.00".toFloat() // 2.0
"2".toFloat() // 2.0
toInt()
"asdwads".toInt() // nil
"2.00".toInt() // 2
"2".toInt() // 2
toDate()
"asdwads".toDate() // nil
"2014-06-03".toDate() // NSDate
toDateTime()
"asdwads".toDateTime() // nil
"2014-06-03 13:15:01".toDateTime() // NSDate
toDouble()
"asdwads".toDouble() // nil
"2.00".toDouble() // 2.0
"2".toDouble() // 2.0
trimmedLeft()
" How are you? ".trimmedLeft() // "How are you? "
trimmedRight()
" How are you? ".trimmedRight() // " How are you?"
trimmed()
" How are you? ".trimmed() // "How are you?"
slugify()
"Global Thermonuclear Warfare".slugify() // "global-thermonuclear-warfare"
"Crème brûlée".slugify() // "creme-brulee"
stripPunctuation()
"My, st[ring] *full* of %punct)".stripPunctuation() // "My string full of punct"
substring(startIndex, length)
"hello world".substring(0, length: 1) // "h"
"hello world".substring(0, length: 11) // "hello world"
[subscript]
"hello world"[0...1] // "he"
"hello world"[0..<1] // "h"
"hello world"[0] // "h"
"hello world"[0...10] // "hello world"
Author
Andrew Mayne, [email protected]
License
SwiftString is available under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more info.
*Note that all licence references and agreements mentioned in the SwiftString README section above
are relevant to that project's source code only.