如果你想知道一个字符作为int值在字符串中的位置，使用这个:

let loc = newString.range(of: ".").location

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!)

在Swift 2.0中，下面的函数在给定字符之前返回一个子字符串。

func substring(before sub: String) -> String {
    if let range = self.rangeOfString(sub),
        let index: Int = self.startIndex.distanceTo(range.startIndex) {
        return sub_range(0, index)
    }
    return ""
}

extension String{
    func contains(find: String)->Bool{
        return self.range(of: find) != nil
    }
}
 
func check(n:String, h:String)->Int{
    let n1 = n.lowercased()
    let h1 = h.lowercased()//lowercase to make string case insensitive
    var pos = 0 //postion of substring
    if h1.contains(n1){
       // checking if sub string exists
        if let idx = h1.firstIndex(of:n1.first!){
             let pos1 = h1.distance(from: h1.startIndex, to: idx)
           pos = pos1
        }
        return pos
    }
    else{
        return -1
    }
}
 
print(check(n:"@", h:"hithisispushker,he is 99 a good Boy"))//put substring in n: and string in h

如果你想知道一个字符作为int值在字符串中的位置，使用这个:

let loc = newString.range(of: ".").location

    // 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.