如果你不关心性能……这可能是Swift 4中最简洁的解决方案

extension String {
    subscript(range: CountableClosedRange<Int>) -> String {
        return enumerated().filter{$0.offset >= range.first! && $0.offset < range.last!}
            .reduce(""){$0 + String($1.element)}
    }
}

它可以让你做这样的事情:

let myStr = "abcd"
myStr[0..<2] // produces "ab"

String的简单扩展:

extension String {

    func substringToIndex(index: Int) -> String {
        return self[startIndex...startIndex.advancedBy(min(index, characters.count - 1))]
    }
}

斯威夫特2.0

简单:

let myString = "full text container"
let substring = myString[myString.startIndex..<myString.startIndex.advancedBy(3)] // prints: ful

斯威夫特3.0

let substring = myString[myString.startIndex..<myString.index(myString.startIndex, offsetBy: 3)] // prints: ful

斯威夫特4.0

子字符串操作返回Substring类型的实例，而不是String。

let substring = myString[myString.startIndex..<myString.index(myString.startIndex, offsetBy: 3)] // prints: ful

// Convert the result to a String for long-term storage.
let newString = String(substring)

由于String是NSString的桥接类型，“旧的”方法应该可以工作，但不清楚如何工作-例如，这也不起作用(似乎不是有效的语法): let x = str.substringWithRange(NSMakeRange(0,3))

对我来说，这是你问题中真正有趣的部分。String被桥接到NSString，所以大多数NSString方法直接作用于String。你可以自由地使用它们，不需要思考。例如，这正如你所期望的那样:

// delete all spaces from Swift String stateName
stateName = stateName.stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString(" ", withString:"")

But, as so often happens, "I got my mojo workin' but it just don't work on you." You just happened to pick one of the rare cases where a parallel identically named Swift method exists, and in a case like that, the Swift method overshadows the Objective-C method. Thus, when you say str.substringWithRange, Swift thinks you mean the Swift method rather than the NSString method — and then you are hosed, because the Swift method expects a Range<String.Index>, and you don't know how to make one of those.

最简单的办法就是阻止霉霉这样做，明确地说:

let x = (str as NSString).substringWithRange(NSMakeRange(0, 3))

注意，这里没有涉及到重大的额外工作。“转换”并不意味着“转换”;String实际上是一个NSString。我们只是告诉Swift为了这一行代码的目的如何看待这个变量。

整个事情中真正奇怪的部分是导致所有这些麻烦的Swift方法是没有记录的。我不知道它的定义是什么;它不在NSString头文件中也不在Swift头文件中。

如何在Swift 2.0中获取子字符串的示例代码

(i)起始索引的子字符串

输入:-

var str = "Swift is very powerful language!"
print(str)

str = str.substringToIndex(str.startIndex.advancedBy(5))
print(str)

输出:

Swift is very powerful language!
Swift

(ii)特定索引的子字符串

输入:-

var str = "Swift is very powerful language!"
print(str)

str = str.substringFromIndex(str.startIndex.advancedBy(6)).substringToIndex(str.startIndex.advancedBy(2))
print(str)

输出:

Swift is very powerful language!
is

希望对你有所帮助!

Rob Napier已经用下标给出了一个很棒的答案。但我觉得有一个缺点，因为没有检查出约束条件。这可能会导致崩溃。所以我修改了扩展，在这里

extension String {
    subscript (r: Range<Int>) -> String? { //Optional String as return value
        get {
            let stringCount = self.characters.count as Int
            //Check for out of boundary condition
            if (stringCount < r.endIndex) || (stringCount < r.startIndex){
                return nil
            }
            let startIndex = self.startIndex.advancedBy(r.startIndex)

            let endIndex = self.startIndex.advancedBy(r.endIndex - r.startIndex)

            return self[Range(start: startIndex, end: endIndex)]
        }
    }
}

下面的输出

var str2 = "Hello, World"

var str3 = str2[0...5]
//Hello,
var str4 = str2[0..<5]
//Hello
var str5 = str2[0..<15]
//nil

所以我建议总是检查if let

if let string = str[0...5]
{
    //Manipulate your string safely
}