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

Swift 3.0让这个更加冗长:

let string = "Hello.World"
let needle: Character = "."
if let idx = string.characters.index(of: needle) {
    let pos = string.characters.distance(from: string.startIndex, to: idx)
    print("Found \(needle) at position \(pos)")
}
else {
    print("Not found")
}

扩展:

extension String {
    public func index(of char: Character) -> Int? {
        if let idx = characters.index(of: char) {
            return characters.distance(from: startIndex, to: idx)
        }
        return nil
    }
}

在Swift 2.0中，这变得更加容易:

let string = "Hello.World"
let needle: Character = "."
if let idx = string.characters.indexOf(needle) {
    let pos = string.startIndex.distanceTo(idx)
    print("Found \(needle) at position \(pos)")
}
else {
    print("Not found")
}

扩展:

extension String {
    public func indexOfCharacter(char: Character) -> Int? {
        if let idx = self.characters.indexOf(char) {
            return self.startIndex.distanceTo(idx)
        }
        return nil
    }
}

斯威夫特1。x实现:

对于纯Swift解决方案，可以使用:

let string = "Hello.World"
let needle: Character = "."
if let idx = find(string, needle) {
    let pos = distance(string.startIndex, idx)
    println("Found \(needle) at position \(pos)")
}
else {
    println("Not found")
}

作为String的扩展:

extension String {
    public func indexOfCharacter(char: Character) -> Int? {
        if let idx = find(self, char) {
            return distance(self.startIndex, idx)
        }
        return nil
    }
}

斯威夫特5.0

public extension String {  
  func indexInt(of char: Character) -> Int? {
    return firstIndex(of: char)?.utf16Offset(in: self)
  }
}

斯威夫特4.0

public extension String {  
  func indexInt(of char: Character) -> Int? {
    return index(of: char)?.encodedOffset        
  }
}

    // 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.

Swift 4完整解决方案:

OffsetIndexableCollection(使用Int索引的字符串)

https://github.com/frogcjn/OffsetIndexableCollection-String-Int-Indexable-

let a = "01234"

print(a[0]) // 0
print(a[0...4]) // 01234
print(a[...]) // 01234

print(a[..<2]) // 01
print(a[...2]) // 012
print(a[2...]) // 234
print(a[2...3]) // 23
print(a[2...2]) // 2

if let number = a.index(of: "1") {
    print(number) // 1
    print(a[number...]) // 1234
}

if let number = a.index(where: { $0 > "1" }) {
    print(number) // 2
}

在Swift 2中获取子字符串的索引:

let text = "abc"
if let range = text.rangeOfString("b") {
   var index: Int = text.startIndex.distanceTo(range.startIndex) 
   ...
}