get all ranges of a substring in a string in swift

Question

I have a string for example \"ab ad adk fda kla kad ab ab kd\". I want to get all range of ab.(Here ab is present at 3 position so I should get 3 range).In normal scenarion

Answer 1

You can get occurance count for particular string by following code:

let str: NSMutableString = "ab ad adk fda kla kad ab ab kd"
let count = str.replaceOccurrencesOfString("ab", withString: "ab", options: NSStringCompareOptions.LiteralSearch, range: NSMakeRange(0, str.length))