Character index at touch point for UILabel

Question

For a UILabel, I\'d like to find out which character index is at specific point received from a touch event. I\'d like to solve this problem for iOS 7 using Tex

Answer 1

I have implemented the same on swift 3. Below is the complete code to find Character index at touch point for UILabel, it can help others who are working on swift and looking for the solution :

    //here myLabel is the object of UILabel
    //added this from @warly's answer
    //set font of attributedText
    let attributedText = NSMutableAttributedString(attributedString: myLabel!.attributedText!)
    attributedText.addAttributes([NSFontAttributeName: myLabel!.font], range: NSMakeRange(0, (myLabel!.attributedText?.string.characters.count)!))

    // Create instances of NSLayoutManager, NSTextContainer and NSTextStorage
    let layoutManager = NSLayoutManager()
    let textContainer = NSTextContainer(size: CGSize(width: (myLabel?.frame.width)!, height: (myLabel?.frame.height)!+100))
    let textStorage = NSTextStorage(attributedString: attributedText)

    // Configure layoutManager and textStorage
    layoutManager.addTextContainer(textContainer)
    textStorage.addLayoutManager(layoutManager)

    // Configure textContainer
    textContainer.lineFragmentPadding = 0.0
    textContainer.lineBreakMode = myLabel!.lineBreakMode
    textContainer.maximumNumberOfLines = myLabel!.numberOfLines
    let labelSize = myLabel!.bounds.size
    textContainer.size = labelSize

    // get the index of character where user tapped
    let indexOfCharacter = layoutManager.characterIndex(for: tapLocation, in: textContainer, fractionOfDistanceBetweenInsertionPoints: nil)