For Swift 5 see rustylepord's answer.
Update for Swift 3:
let letters = CharacterSet.letters
let digits = CharacterSet.decimalDigits
var letterCount = 0
var digitCount = 0
for uni in phrase.unicodeScalars {
if letters.contains(uni) {
letterCount += 1
} else if digits.contains(uni) {
digitCount += 1
}
}
(Previous answer for older Swift versions)
A possible Swift solution:
var letterCounter = 0
var digitCount = 0
let phrase = "The final score was 32-31!"
for tempChar in phrase.unicodeScalars {
if tempChar.isAlpha() {
letterCounter++
} else if tempChar.isDigit() {
digitCount++
}
}
Update: The above solution works only with characters in the ASCII character set,
i.e. it does not recognize Ä, é or ø as letters. The following alternative
solution uses NSCharacterSet
from the Foundation framework, which can test characters
based on their Unicode character classes:
let letters = NSCharacterSet.letterCharacterSet()
let digits = NSCharacterSet.decimalDigitCharacterSet()
var letterCount = 0
var digitCount = 0
for uni in phrase.unicodeScalars {
if letters.longCharacterIsMember(uni.value) {
letterCount++
} else if digits.longCharacterIsMember(uni.value) {
digitCount++
}
}
Update 2: As of Xcode 6 beta 4, the first solution does not work anymore, because
the isAlpha()
and related (ASCII-only) methods have been removed from Swift.
The second solution still works.