Highlight a specific part of the text in SwiftUI

Question

Hello I\'m new to Swift and am using SwiftUI for my project where I download some weather data and I display it in the ContentView().

I would like to highlight some

Answer 1

If that requires just simple word styling then here is possible solution.

Tested with Xcode 11.4 / iOS 13.4

struct ContentView: View {
    let testo : String = "There is a thunderstorm in the area. Added some testing long text to demo that wrapping works correctly!"


    var body: some View {
        hilightedText(str: testo, searched: "thunderstorm")
            .multilineTextAlignment(.leading)
    }

    func hilightedText(str: String, searched: String) -> Text {
        guard !str.isEmpty && !searched.isEmpty else { return Text(str) }

        var result: Text!
        let parts = str.components(separatedBy: searched)
        for i in parts.indices {
            result = (result == nil ? Text(parts[i]) : result + Text(parts[i]))
            if i != parts.count - 1 {
                result = result + Text(searched).bold()
            }
        }
        return result ?? Text(str)
    }
}

Note: below is previously used function, but as commented by @Lkabo it has limitations on very long strings

func hilightedText(str: String) -> Text {
    let textToSearch = "thunderstorm"
    var result: Text!

    for word in str.split(separator: " ") {
        var text = Text(word)
        if word == textToSearch {
            text = text.bold()
        }
        result = (result == nil ? text : result + Text(" ") + text)
    }
    return result ?? Text(str)
}