Objective C how to get the numeric value of a UITextPosition

Question

I need to get the numeric value of the start and end of a UIText range. So far I can only print out the description as a string.

From looking at the selectedTextRange, I take it that it is maybe a struct? How do I get an element of a struct?

UITextRange *selectedRange = [myTextView selectedTextRange];

NSLog(@"selectedRange.start %@, selectedRange.end %@ ", selectedRange.start.description, selectedRange.end.description);

Here is the description:

2013-03-26 13:44:03.127 AttributedString[24678:907] selectedRange.start <UITextPosition: 0x1ead8f10, 8, {"Rrrttgh "}, {"gggggh ggg..."}>, selectedRange.end <UITextPosition: 0x1eaf7860, 14, {"...tgh gggggh"}, {" gggg"}> 

Answer 1

There is an answer to a similar question here: UITextPosition to NSRange.

Basically you call -offsetFromPosition:toPosition: on the UITextRange's start and end, with an initial position of myTextView.beginningOfDocument.