How to slice a string in Swift?

Question

My goal is to slice a string in Swift, for example

var str = "Tower Capital, 99822, Building 2399"

My goal is to slice only Tower Capital, technically what I want is to slice up to the , but not included the comma.

So my goal is to get only "Tower Capital"

Have a look https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25818197/how-to-split-a-string-in-swift — Sahil, Aug 16 '17 at 10:25

André Slotta · Accepted Answer · 2017-08-16T10:38:13.027

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You can split the string and get the first part like this:

var str = "Tower Capital, 99822, Building 2399"
let firstItem = str.componentsSeparatedByString(",").first

Or when using Swift >= 3:

str.components(separatedBy: ",").first

edited Aug 16 '17 at 10:38

answered Aug 16 '17 at 10:24

André Slotta

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That's an archaic usage. Use `str.components(separatedBy: ",").first` now... – Grimxn Aug 16 '17 at 10:27
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There might be some people still using Xcode 7... updated my answer :) – André Slotta Aug 16 '17 at 10:37
@AndréSlotta They really shouldn't be, and we shouldn't be encouraging it :p Swift 3 is already on it's way out lol – Alexander Aug 16 '17 at 12:30
@Alexander true :) – André Slotta Aug 16 '17 at 12:32
Thanks @AndréSlotta – sinusGob Aug 18 '17 at 08:54

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