在公认的答案中，我发现可选选项很麻烦。这适用于Swift 3，似乎对表情符号没有问题。

func textField(_ textField: UITextField, 
      shouldChangeCharactersIn range: NSRange, 
      replacementString string: String) -> Bool {

  guard let value = textField.text else {return false} // there may be a reason for returning true in this case but I can't think of it
  // now value is a String, not an optional String

  let valueAfterChange = (value as NSString).replacingCharacters(in: range, with: string)
  // valueAfterChange is a String, not an optional String

  // now do whatever processing is required

  return true  // or false, as required
}

在Swift 2.0中假设func textField(textField: UITextField, shouldChangeCharactersInRange range: NSRange, replacementString string: string) -> Bool {:

var oldString = textfield.text!
let newRange = oldString.startIndex.advancedBy(range.location)..<oldString.startIndex.advancedBy(range.location + range.length)
let newString = oldString.stringByReplacingCharactersInRange(newRange, withString: string)

我发现最干净的swift2唯一的解决方案是在NSRange上创建一个类别:

extension NSRange {
    func stringRangeForText(string: String) -> Range<String.Index> {
        let start = string.startIndex.advancedBy(self.location)
        let end = start.advancedBy(self.length)
        return Range<String.Index>(start: start, end: end)
    }
}

然后调用它from for textfield delegate函数:

func textField(textField: UITextField, shouldChangeCharactersInRange range: NSRange, replacementString string: String) -> Bool {
    let range = range.stringRangeForText(textField.text)
    let output = textField.text.stringByReplacingCharactersInRange(range, withString: string)

    // your code goes here....

    return true
}

Swift 5解决方案

简短的回答带有主要的扩展

extension NSRange {

    public init(range: Range<String.Index>, 
                originalText: String) {

        self.init(location: range.lowerBound.utf16Offset(in: originalText),
                  length: range.upperBound.utf16Offset(in: originalText) - range.lowerBound.utf16Offset(in: originalText))
    }
}

详情请看这里

NSString版本(相对于Swift String)的replacingCharacters(in: NSRange, with: NSString)接受NSRange，所以一个简单的解决方案是先将String转换为NSString。在Swift 3和2中，委托和替换方法的名称略有不同，所以这取决于你使用的Swift:

斯威夫特3.0

func textField(_ textField: UITextField,
               shouldChangeCharactersIn range: NSRange,
               replacementString string: String) -> Bool {

  let nsString = textField.text as NSString?
  let newString = nsString?.replacingCharacters(in: range, with: string)
}

快2.倍

func textField(textField: UITextField,
               shouldChangeCharactersInRange range: NSRange,
               replacementString string: String) -> Bool {

    let nsString = textField.text as NSString?
    let newString = nsString?.stringByReplacingCharactersInRange(range, withString: string)
}

extension StringProtocol where Index == String.Index {

    func nsRange(of string: String) -> NSRange? {
        guard let range = self.range(of: string) else {  return nil }
        return NSRange(range, in: self)
    }
}