Converting String to Int with Swift

Question

The application basically calculates acceleration by inputting Initial and final velocity and time and then use a formula to calculate acceleration. However, since the value

Answer 1

Swift 5.0 and Above

Working

In case if you are splitting the String it creates two substrings and not two Strings . This below method will check for Any and convert it t0 NSNumber its easy to convert a NSNumber to Int, Float what ever data type you need.

Actual Code

//Convert Any To Number Object Removing Optional Key Word.
public func getNumber(number: Any) -> NSNumber{
 guard let statusNumber:NSNumber = number as? NSNumber  else {
    guard let statString:String = number as? String else {
        guard let statSubStr : Substring = number as? Substring else {
            return 0
        }
        if let myInteger = Int(statSubStr) {
            return NSNumber(value:myInteger)
        }
        else{
            return 0
        }
    }

    if let myInteger = Int(statString) {
        return NSNumber(value:myInteger)
    }
    else if let myFloat = Float(statString) {
        return NSNumber(value:myFloat)
    }else {
        return 0
    }
}
return statusNumber }

Usage

if let hourVal = getNumber(number: hourStr) as? Int {

}

Passing String to check and convert to Double

Double(getNumber(number:  dict["OUT"] ?? 0)

Answer 2

Basic Idea, note that this only works in Swift 1.x (check out ParaSara's answer to see how it works in Swift 2.x):

    // toInt returns optional that's why we used a:Int?
    let a:Int? = firstText.text.toInt() // firstText is UITextField
    let b:Int? = secondText.text.toInt() // secondText is UITextField

    // check a and b before unwrapping using !
    if a && b {
        var ans = a! + b!
        answerLabel.text = "Answer is \(ans)" // answerLabel ie UILabel
    } else {
        answerLabel.text = "Input values are not numeric"
    }

Update for Swift 4

...
let a:Int? = Int(firstText.text) // firstText is UITextField
let b:Int? = Int(secondText.text) // secondText is UITextField
...

Answer 3

Useful for String to Int and other type

extension String {
        //Converts String to Int
        public func toInt() -> Int? {
            if let num = NumberFormatter().number(from: self) {
                return num.intValue
            } else {
                return nil
            }
        }

        //Converts String to Double
        public func toDouble() -> Double? {
            if let num = NumberFormatter().number(from: self) {
                return num.doubleValue
            } else {
                return nil
            }
        }

        /// EZSE: Converts String to Float
        public func toFloat() -> Float? {
            if let num = NumberFormatter().number(from: self) {
                return num.floatValue
            } else {
                return nil
            }
        }

        //Converts String to Bool
        public func toBool() -> Bool? {
            return (self as NSString).boolValue
        }
    }

Use it like :

"123".toInt() // 123

Answer 4

You can use NSNumberFormatter().numberFromString(yourNumberString). It's great because it returns an an optional that you can then test with if let to determine if the conversion was successful. eg.

var myString = "\(10)"
if let myNumber = NSNumberFormatter().numberFromString(myString) {
    var myInt = myNumber.integerValue
    // do what you need to do with myInt
} else {
    // what ever error code you need to write
}

Swift 5

var myString = "\(10)"
if let myNumber = NumberFormatter().number(from: myString) {
    var myInt = myNumber.intValue
    // do what you need to do with myInt
  } else {
    // what ever error code you need to write
  }

Answer 5

Use this:

// get the values from text boxes
    let a:Double = firstText.text.bridgeToObjectiveC().doubleValue
    let b:Double = secondText.text.bridgeToObjectiveC().doubleValue

//  we checking against 0.0, because above function return 0.0 if it gets failed to convert
    if (a != 0.0) && (b != 0.0) {
        var ans = a + b
        answerLabel.text = "Answer is \(ans)"
    } else {
        answerLabel.text = "Input values are not numberic"
    }

OR

Make your UITextField KeyboardType as DecimalTab from your XIB or storyboard, and remove any if condition for doing any calculation, ie.

var ans = a + b
answerLabel.text = "Answer is \(ans)"

Because keyboard type is DecimalPad there is no chance to enter other 0-9 or .

Hope this help !!

Answer 6

Convert String value to Integer in Swift 4

let strValue:String = "100"
let intValue = strValue as! Int
var intValueFromString:Int = strValue as! Int
or
var intValueFromString = Int(strValue)!