How can I check to see if a string contains characters of whitespace/alphanumeric/etc?

Question

How can you use the \"ctype.h\" library in Swift to be able to use isAlpha or isSpace on characters? Or is there a better, Swift, way of doing it?

Answer 1

I created a String extension that does exactly this, hope it's useful.

extension String {
    func containsWhitespaceAndNewlines() -> Bool {
        return rangeOfCharacter(from: .whitespacesAndNewlines) != nil
    }
}

// Usage
"hello, world!".containsWhitespaceAndNewlines() // true
"hello,world!".containsWhitespaceAndNewlines() // false