Get X and Y coordinates of a word in UITextView

Question

I asked a developer (TwoLivesLeft, the creators of Codea) how they did syntax highlighting in their app. He replied :

@TD2 the Codea editor is impleme

Answer 1

@bddicken's https://stackoverflow.com/a/11487125/3549781 works like a charm. But the problem is, it doesn't work on iOS 7+ if the text contains a newline "\n". After a lot of searching I found a solution for that.

You have to ensure the layout of textView before calling firstRectForRange: by

[textView.layoutManager ensureLayoutForTextContainer:textView.textContainer];

Courtesy : UITextView firstRectForRange not working when there's new line characters in the mix

P.S : At first I added this as a comment to @bddicken's answer. As most people don't read comments I added this as an answer.