Swift extract regex matches

Question

I want to extract substrings from a string that match a regex pattern.

So I\'m looking for something like this:

func matchesForRegexInText(regex: St         


        

Answer 1

This is how I did it, I hope it brings a new perspective how this works on Swift.

In this example below I will get the any string between []

var sample = "this is an [hello] amazing [world]"

var regex = NSRegularExpression(pattern: "\\[.+?\\]"
, options: NSRegularExpressionOptions.CaseInsensitive 
, error: nil)

var matches = regex?.matchesInString(sample, options: nil
, range: NSMakeRange(0, countElements(sample))) as Array

for match in matches {
   let r = (sample as NSString).substringWithRange(match.range)//cast to NSString is required to match range format.
    println("found= \(r)")
}