How to slice a string in Swift? [duplicate]

Question

My goal is to slice a string in Swift, for example

var str = "Tower Capital, 99822, Building 2399"

My goal is to slice only Tower Capital, technically what I want is to slice up to the , but not included the comma.

So my goal is to get only "Tower Capital"

André Slotta · Accepted Answer · 2017-08-16 10:38:13Z

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You can split the string and get the first part like this:

var str = "Tower Capital, 99822, Building 2399"
let firstItem = str.componentsSeparatedByString(",").first

Or when using Swift >= 3:

str.components(separatedBy: ",").first

answered Aug 16, 2017 at 10:24

André Slotta

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That's an archaic usage. Use str.components(separatedBy: ",").first now...

There might be some people still using Xcode 7... updated my answer :)

@AndréSlotta They really shouldn't be, and we shouldn't be encouraging it :p Swift 3 is already on it's way out lol

@Alexander true :)

Thanks @AndréSlotta