Swift - Replacing emojis in a string with whitespace

Question

I have a method that detects urls in a string and returns me both the urls and the ranges where they can be found. Everything works perfectly until there are emojis on the s

Answer 1

You can use pattern matching (for emoji patterns) to filter out emoji characters from your String.

extension String {

    var emojilessStringWithSubstitution: String {
        let emojiPatterns = [UnicodeScalar(0x1F601)...UnicodeScalar(0x1F64F),
                             UnicodeScalar(0x2702)...UnicodeScalar(0x27B0)]
        return self.unicodeScalars
            .filter { ucScalar in !(emojiPatterns.contains{ $0 ~= ucScalar }) }
            .reduce("") { $0 + String($1) }
    }  
}

/* example usage */
let str = "I'm gonna do this callenge as soon as I can swing again