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

You can use shouldChangeCharactersInRange along with String extension method to check if the input string is number or not.

extension String  {

    var isNumber : Bool {
        get{
            return !self.isEmpty && self.stringWithoutWhitespaces.rangeOfCharacter(from: CharacterSet.decimalDigits.inverted) == nil
        }
    }

    var stringWithoutWhitespaces: String {
        return self.replacingOccurrences(of: " ", with: "")
    }

}

//Mark: shouldChangeCharactersInRange
func textField(textField: UITextField, shouldChangeCharactersInRange range: NSRange, replacementString string: String) -> Bool {
    // return true if the string only contains numeric characters
    let isValid = string.stringWithoutWhitespaces.isNumber 
    return valid
}