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

Here's a swift copy of the accepted answer in case somebody needs it. It is basically a wrapper class. I haven't spent too much time on optimising it, but it's ready for use.

var creditCardFormatter : CreditCardFormatter
{
    return CreditCardFormatter.sharedInstance
}

class CreditCardFormatter : NSObject
{
    static let sharedInstance : CreditCardFormatter = CreditCardFormatter()

    func formatToCreditCardNumber(textField : UITextField, withPreviousTextContent previousTextContent : String?, andPreviousCursorPosition previousCursorSelection : UITextRange?)
    {
        if let selectedRangeStart = textField.selectedTextRange?.start, textFieldText = textField.text
        {
            var targetCursorPosition : UInt = UInt(textField.offsetFromPosition(textField.beginningOfDocument, toPosition: selectedRangeStart))

            let cardNumberWithoutSpaces : String = removeNonDigitsFromString(textFieldText, andPreserveCursorPosition: &targetCursorPosition)

            if cardNumberWithoutSpaces.characters.count > 19
            {
                textField.text = previousTextContent
                textField.selectedTextRange = previousCursorSelection
                return
            }

            let cardNumberWithSpaces : String = insertSpacesIntoEvery4DigitsIntoString(cardNumberWithoutSpaces, andPreserveCursorPosition: &targetCursorPosition)

            textField.text = cardNumberWithSpaces

            if let finalCursorPosition = textField.positionFromPosition(textField.beginningOfDocument, offset: Int(targetCursorPosition))
            {
                textField.selectedTextRange = textField.textRangeFromPosition(finalCursorPosition, toPosition: finalCursorPosition)
            }
        }
    }

    func removeNonDigitsFromString(string : String,inout andPreserveCursorPosition cursorPosition : UInt) -> String
    {
        var digitsOnlyString : String = ""

        for index in 0.stride(to: string.characters.count, by: 1)
        {
            let charToAdd : Character = Array(string.characters)[index]

            if isDigit(charToAdd)
            {
                digitsOnlyString.append(charToAdd)
            }
            else
            {
                if index < Int(cursorPosition)
                {
                    cursorPosition -= 1
                }
            }
        }

        return digitsOnlyString
    }

    private func isDigit(character : Character) -> Bool
    {
        return "\(character)".containsOnlyDigits()
    }

    func insertSpacesIntoEvery4DigitsIntoString(string : String, inout andPreserveCursorPosition cursorPosition : UInt) -> String
    {
        var stringWithAddedSpaces : String = ""

        for index in 0.stride(to: string.characters.count, by: 1)
        {
            if index != 0 && index % 4 == 0
            {
                stringWithAddedSpaces += " "

                if index < Int(cursorPosition)
                {
                    cursorPosition += 1
                }
            }

            let characterToAdd : Character = Array(string.characters)[index]

            stringWithAddedSpaces.append(characterToAdd)
        }

        return stringWithAddedSpaces
    }

}

extension String
{
    func containsOnlyDigits() -> Bool
    {
        let notDigits : NSCharacterSet = NSCharacterSet.decimalDigitCharacterSet().invertedSet

        if (rangeOfCharacterFromSet(notDigits, options: NSStringCompareOptions.LiteralSearch, range: nil) == nil)
        {
            return true
        }

        return false
    }
}