在我看来，了解逻辑本身的更好方法是下面

 let testStr: String = "I love my family if you Love us to tell us I'm with you"
 var newStr = ""
 let char:Character = "i"

 for value in testStr {
      if value == char {
         newStr = newStr + String(value)
   }

}
print(newStr.count)

extension String {

    // MARK: - sub String
    func substringToIndex(index:Int) -> String {
        return self.substringToIndex(advance(self.startIndex, index))
    }
    func substringFromIndex(index:Int) -> String {
        return self.substringFromIndex(advance(self.startIndex, index))
    }
    func substringWithRange(range:Range<Int>) -> String {
        let start = advance(self.startIndex, range.startIndex)
        let end = advance(self.startIndex, range.endIndex)
        return self.substringWithRange(start..<end)
    }

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


    // MARK: - replace
    func replaceCharactersInRange(range:Range<Int>, withString: String!) -> String {
        var result:NSMutableString = NSMutableString(string: self)
        result.replaceCharactersInRange(NSRange(range), withString: withString)
        return result
    }
}

在思考方面，这可能被称为反转。你会发现世界是圆的而不是平的。“你真的不需要知道角色的索引来处理它。”作为一名C程序员，我发现这也很难接受! 你的行“let index = letters.characters.indexOf("c")!”本身就足够了。 例如，要去掉c，你可以用…(操场粘贴)

    var letters = "abcdefg"
  //let index = letters.rangeOfString("c")!.startIndex //is the same as
    let index = letters.characters.indexOf("c")!
    range = letters.characters.indexOf("c")!...letters.characters.indexOf("c")!
    letters.removeRange(range)
    letters

然而，如果你想要一个索引，你需要返回一个实际的index而不是Int值，因为Int值对于任何实际使用都需要额外的步骤。这些扩展返回一个索引，一个特定字符的计数，以及这个游乐场插件代码将演示的范围。

extension String
{
    public func firstIndexOfCharacter(aCharacter: Character) -> String.CharacterView.Index? {

        for index in self.characters.indices {
            if self[index] == aCharacter {
                return index
            }

        }
        return nil
    }

    public func returnCountOfThisCharacterInString(aCharacter: Character) -> Int? {

        var count = 0
        for letters in self.characters{

            if aCharacter == letters{

                count++
            }
        }
        return count
    }


    public func rangeToCharacterFromStart(aCharacter: Character) -> Range<Index>? {

        for index in self.characters.indices {
            if self[index] == aCharacter {
                let range = self.startIndex...index
                return range
            }

        }
        return nil
    }

}



var MyLittleString = "MyVery:important String"

var theIndex = MyLittleString.firstIndexOfCharacter(":")

var countOfColons = MyLittleString.returnCountOfThisCharacterInString(":")

var theCharacterAtIndex:Character = MyLittleString[theIndex!]

var theRange = MyLittleString.rangeToCharacterFromStart(":")
MyLittleString.removeRange(theRange!)

如果你想使用熟悉的NSString，你可以显式地声明它:

var someString: NSString = "abcdefghi"

var someRange: NSRange = someString.rangeOfString("c")

我还不确定如何在Swift中做到这一点。

    // Using Swift 4, the code below works.
    // The problem is that String.index is a struct. Use dot notation to grab the integer part of it that you want: ".encodedOffset"
    let strx = "0123456789ABCDEF"
    let si = strx.index(of: "A")
    let i = si?.encodedOffset       // i will be an Int. You need "?" because it might be nil, no such character found.

    if i != nil {                   // You MUST deal with the optional, unwrap it only if not nil.
        print("i = ",i)
        print("i = ",i!)            // "!" str1ps off "optional" specification (unwraps i).
            // or
        let ii = i!
        print("ii = ",ii)

    }
    // Good luck.

你也可以像这样在一个字符串中找到一个字符的索引，

extension String {

  func indexes(of character: String) -> [Int] {

    precondition(character.count == 1, "Must be single character")

    return self.enumerated().reduce([]) { partial, element  in
      if String(element.element) == character {
        return partial + [element.offset]
      }
      return partial
    }
  }

}

它在[String]中给出结果。距离ie。(Int)

"apple".indexes(of: "p") // [1, 2]
"element".indexes(of: "e") // [0, 2, 4]
"swift".indexes(of: "j") // []