斯威夫特5.3

我觉得这很优雅。“Hacking with Swift”的Paul Hudson提出了以下解决方案:

@available (macOS 10.15, * )
extension String {
    subscript(idx: Int) -> String {
        String(self[index(startIndex, offsetBy: idx)])
    }
}

然后，要从字符串中获取一个字符，你只需做:

var string = "Hello, world!"

var firstChar = string[0] // No error, returns "H" as a String

注意:我只是想补充，这将返回一个字符串指出在评论。我认为这对Swift用户来说可能是意想不到的，但我经常需要一个字符串来直接在我的代码中使用，而不是字符类型，所以它确实简化了我的代码，避免了后来从字符到字符串的转换。

我也有同样的问题。简单地这样做:

var aString: String = "test"
var aChar:unichar = (aString as NSString).characterAtIndex(0)

斯威夫特5.1

这可能是所有答案中最简单的一个。

添加这个扩展:

extension String {
    func retrieveFirstCharacter() -> String? {
        guard self.count > 0 else { return nil }
        let numberOfCharacters = self.count
        return String(self.dropLast(numberOfCharacters - 1))
    }
}

使用字符就可以了。您可以快速地将字符串转换为字符数组，可以由CharacterView方法操作。

例子:

let myString = "Hello World!"
let myChars  = myString.characters

(完整的CharacterView文档)

(在Swift 3中测试)

注意:请参阅Leo Dabus关于正确实现Swift 4和Swift 5的回答。

Swift 4或更高版本

Substring类型是在Swift 4中引入的，用于生成子字符串 通过与原始字符串共享存储，更快更有效，这就是下标函数应该返回的。

在这里试试吧

extension StringProtocol {
    subscript(offset: Int) -> Character { self[index(startIndex, offsetBy: offset)] }
    subscript(range: Range<Int>) -> SubSequence {
        let startIndex = index(self.startIndex, offsetBy: range.lowerBound)
        return self[startIndex..<index(startIndex, offsetBy: range.count)]
    }
    subscript(range: ClosedRange<Int>) -> SubSequence {
        let startIndex = index(self.startIndex, offsetBy: range.lowerBound)
        return self[startIndex..<index(startIndex, offsetBy: range.count)]
    }
    subscript(range: PartialRangeFrom<Int>) -> SubSequence { self[index(startIndex, offsetBy: range.lowerBound)...] }
    subscript(range: PartialRangeThrough<Int>) -> SubSequence { self[...index(startIndex, offsetBy: range.upperBound)] }
    subscript(range: PartialRangeUpTo<Int>) -> SubSequence { self[..<index(startIndex, offsetBy: range.upperBound)] }
}

要将子字符串转换为字符串，您可以简单地 做字符串(字符串[0..2])，但你应该只做如果 您计划保留子字符串。否则，就更多了 有效地保持它为Substring。

It would be great if someone could figure out a good way to merge these two extensions into one. I tried extending StringProtocol without success, because the index method does not exist there. Note: This answer has been already edited, it is properly implemented and now works for substrings as well. Just make sure to use a valid range to avoid crashing when subscripting your StringProtocol type. For subscripting with a range that won't crash with out of range values you can use this implementation

为什么这不是内置的?

错误消息显示“请参阅文档注释以进行讨论”。Apple在文件unavailablestringapi .swift中提供了以下解释:

Subscripting strings with integers is not available. The concept of "the ith character in a string" has different interpretations in different libraries and system components. The correct interpretation should be selected according to the use case and the APIs involved, so String cannot be subscripted with an integer. Swift provides several different ways to access the character data stored inside strings. String.utf8 is a collection of UTF-8 code units in the string. Use this API when converting the string to UTF-8. Most POSIX APIs process strings in terms of UTF-8 code units. String.utf16 is a collection of UTF-16 code units in string. Most Cocoa and Cocoa touch APIs process strings in terms of UTF-16 code units. For example, instances of NSRange used with NSAttributedString and NSRegularExpression store substring offsets and lengths in terms of UTF-16 code units. String.unicodeScalars is a collection of Unicode scalars. Use this API when you are performing low-level manipulation of character data. String.characters is a collection of extended grapheme clusters, which are an approximation of user-perceived characters. Note that when processing strings that contain human-readable text, character-by-character processing should be avoided to the largest extent possible. Use high-level locale-sensitive Unicode algorithms instead, for example, String.localizedStandardCompare(), String.localizedLowercaseString, String.localizedStandardRangeOfString() etc.

我认为获取第一个字符的快速答案可能是:

let firstCharacter = aString[aString.startIndex]

它的优雅和性能比:

let firstCharacter = Array(aString.characters).first

但. .如果你想操纵和做更多的操作与字符串，你可以考虑创建一个扩展..这是一个扩展与这种方法，它非常类似于已经在这里张贴:

extension String {
var length : Int {
    return self.characters.count
}

subscript(integerIndex: Int) -> Character {
    let index = startIndex.advancedBy(integerIndex)
    return self[index]
}

subscript(integerRange: Range<Int>) -> String {
    let start = startIndex.advancedBy(integerRange.startIndex)
    let end = startIndex.advancedBy(integerRange.endIndex)
    let range = start..<end
    return self[range]
}

}

但这是个糟糕的主意!!

下面的扩展是非常低效的。每次使用整数访问字符串时，都会运行一个O(n)函数来提高其起始索引。在另一个线性循环中运行一个线性循环意味着这个for循环意外地是O(n2)——随着字符串长度的增加，这个循环所花费的时间呈二次方增加。

而不是这样做，你可以使用字符的字符串集合。