How to restrict UITextField to take only numbers in Swift?

Question

I want the user to only enter numeric values in a UITextField. On iPhone we can show the numeric keyboard, but on iPad the user can switch to any keyboard.

Answer 1

The following is the code I used in Swift 3.0 adapted from Mr H's code. Differences are because:

a) Delegate function declaration has changed in Swift 3.0. New declaration here

b) NSCharacterSet declaration has changed.

func textField(_ shouldChangeCharactersIntextField: UITextField, shouldChangeCharactersIn range: NSRange, replacementString string: String) -> Bool
{

        let inverseSet = NSCharacterSet(charactersIn:"0123456789").inverted

        let components = string.components(separatedBy: inverseSet)

        let filtered = components.joined(separator: "")

        return string == filtered

}