Formatting a UITextField for credit card input like (xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx)

Question

I want to format a UITextField for entering a credit card number into such that it only allows digits to be entered and automatically inserts spaces so that the

Answer 1

Swift 5.1, Xcode 11

After trying many solutions, I faced issues such as setting correct cursor position and formating as per need, I finally found a solution after combining 2 posts (https://stackoverflow.com/a/38838740/10579134, https://stackoverflow.com/a/45297778/10579134)

func textField(_ textField: UITextField, shouldChangeCharactersIn range: NSRange, replacementString string: String) -> Bool {
    guard let currentText = (textField.text as NSString?)?.replacingCharacters(in: range, with: string) else { return true }


    if textField == yourTextField  {

        textField.setText(to: currentText.grouping(every: 4, with: "-"), preservingCursor: true)

        return false
    }
    return true
}

And adding this extension

extension UITextField {

public func setText(to newText: String, preservingCursor: Bool) {
    if preservingCursor {
        let cursorPosition = offset(from: beginningOfDocument, to: selectedTextRange!.start) + newText.count - (text?.count ?? 0)
        text = newText
        if let newPosition = self.position(from: beginningOfDocument, offset: cursorPosition) {
            selectedTextRange = textRange(from: newPosition, to: newPosition)
        }
    }
    else {
        text = newText
    }
}