Detect backspace Event in UITextField

Question

I am searching for solutions on how to capture a backspace event, most Stack Overflow answers are in Objective-C but I need on Swift language.

First I have set deleg

Answer 1

Swift 5.3

In some version its changed and now it says:

When the user deletes one or more characters, the replacement string is empty.

So answer for this:

func textField(_ textField: UITextField, shouldChangeCharactersIn range: NSRange, replacementString string: String) -> Bool {
  if string.isEmpty {
    // do something
  }
  return true
}

If you want to detect that some characters will be deleted

func textField(_ textField: UITextField, shouldChangeCharactersIn range: NSRange, replacementString string: String) -> Bool {
  if range.length > 0 {
    // We convert string to NSString instead of NSRange to Range
    // because NSRange and NSString not counts emoji as one character
    let replacedCharacters = (string as NSString).substring(with: range)
  }
  return true
}

If you want detect backspaces even on empty textField

class TextField: UITextField {
  var backspaceCalled: (()->())?
  override func deleteBackward() {
    super.deleteBackward()
    backspaceCalled?()
  }
}

Old answer

Please don't trash your code. Just put this extension somewhere in your code.

extension String {
  var isBackspace: Bool {
    let char = self.cString(using: String.Encoding.utf8)!
    return strcmp(char, "\\b") == -92
  }
}

And then just use it in your functions

func textField(_ textField: UITextField, shouldChangeCharactersIn range: NSRange, replacementString string: String) -> Bool {
  if string.isBackspace {
    // do something
  }
  return true
}