How to restrict UITextField to take only numbers in Swift?

Question

I want the user to only enter numeric values in a UITextField. On iPhone we can show the numeric keyboard, but on iPad the user can switch to any keyboard.

Answer 1

func textField(textField: UITextField, shouldChangeCharactersInRange range: NSRange, replacementString string: String) -> Bool {
    if let numRange = string.rangeOfCharacterFromSet(NSCharacterSet.letterCharacterSet()) {
        return false
    } else {
        return true
    }
   }

Answer 2

The following is the code I used in Swift 3.0 adapted from Mr H's code. Differences are because:

a) Delegate function declaration has changed in Swift 3.0. New declaration here

b) NSCharacterSet declaration has changed.

func textField(_ shouldChangeCharactersIntextField: UITextField, shouldChangeCharactersIn range: NSRange, replacementString string: String) -> Bool
{

        let inverseSet = NSCharacterSet(charactersIn:"0123456789").inverted

        let components = string.components(separatedBy: inverseSet)

        let filtered = components.joined(separator: "")

        return string == filtered

}

Answer 3

You can use shouldChangeCharactersInRange along with String extension method to check if the input string is number or not.

extension String  {

    var isNumber : Bool {
        get{
            return !self.isEmpty && self.stringWithoutWhitespaces.rangeOfCharacter(from: CharacterSet.decimalDigits.inverted) == nil
        }
    }

    var stringWithoutWhitespaces: String {
        return self.replacingOccurrences(of: " ", with: "")
    }

}

//Mark: shouldChangeCharactersInRange
func textField(textField: UITextField, shouldChangeCharactersInRange range: NSRange, replacementString string: String) -> Bool {
    // return true if the string only contains numeric characters
    let isValid = string.stringWithoutWhitespaces.isNumber 
    return valid
}

Answer 4

Here's an cleaner solution:

 guard CharacterSet(charactersIn: "123456789").isSuperset(of: CharacterSet(charactersIn: string)) else {
     return false
 }
 return true

For decimals just add ., example 123456789.

Answer 5

Swift 2.0

func textField(textField: UITextField,
    shouldChangeCharactersInRange range: NSRange,
    replacementString string: String) -> Bool {

        let inverseSet = NSCharacterSet(charactersInString:"0123456789").invertedSet

        let components = string.componentsSeparatedByCharactersInSet(inverseSet)

        let filtered = components.joinWithSeparator("")

        return string == filtered

  }

Answer 6

For allow some charactors

func CheckAddress(string:String) -> Bool  {
        let numberOnly = NSCharacterSet.init(charactersIn: "0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz-@,&#/")
        let stringFromTextField = NSCharacterSet.init(charactersIn: string)
        return numberOnly.isSuperset(of: stringFromTextField as CharacterSet)
    }

print("\(CheckAddress(string: "123"))") //True
print("\(CheckAddress(string: "asdf-"))") //True
print("\(CheckAddress(string: "asd123$"))") //false