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

       let strString = ((textField.text)! as NSString).stringByReplacingCharactersInRange(range, withString: string)

 }

func textField(_ textField: UITextField, shouldChangeCharactersIn range: NSRange, replacementString string: String) -> Bool {
    
    guard let current = textField.text, let r = Range(range, in: current) else {
        return false
    }
    
    let text = current.replacingCharacters(in: r, with: string)
    // ...
    return true
}

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
}

Swift 3.0 beta版官方文档在标题String下为这种情况提供了标准解决方案。UTF16View中的UTF16View元素匹配NSString字符标题

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
}

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)
}