Mask textField in swift

Question

How I can set a mask for text field in swift? for example, a phone text field when the user type its show like as phone format like this code in objective-C:

self.textField.mask = @"(##)####-####";

Answer 1

This way you can create a telephone mask in Swift.

First create a nifty extension for the String type. The subscript gets the character at an index and the function gets a String.Index type from an int!.

extension String {  
subscript (i: Int) -> String {

    if countElements(self) > i {

        return String(Array(self)[i])
    }

    return ""
}

func indexAt(theInt:Int)->String.Index {

    return advance(self.startIndex, theInt)
    }
}

And this is the function to call on the text in your phone number entry field:

func returnMaskedPhoneField(thePhoneText:String)->String{

    var returnString = thePhoneText

    //Trims non-numerical characters
    returnString = returnString.stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet(NSCharacterSet.decimalDigitCharacterSet().invertedSet)
    //Removes all spaces
    returnString = returnString.stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString(" ", withString: "")

    //Checks if we need to format a mobile number
    if thePhoneText[1] == "4"{

        if countElements(returnString) > 7 {

            returnString = returnString.stringByReplacingCharactersInRange(Range<String.Index>(start: returnString.indexAt(7), end: returnString.indexAt(7)), withString: " ")


        }

        if countElements(returnString) > 4 {

            returnString = returnString.stringByReplacingCharactersInRange(Range<String.Index>(start: returnString.indexAt(4), end: returnString.indexAt(4)), withString: " ")
        }

    }else {

        if countElements(returnString) > 6 {

            returnString = returnString.stringByReplacingCharactersInRange(Range<String.Index>(start: returnString.indexAt(6), end: returnString.indexAt(6)), withString: " ")


        }

        if countElements(returnString) > 2 {

            returnString = returnString.stringByReplacingCharactersInRange(Range<String.Index>(start: returnString.indexAt(2), end: returnString.indexAt(2)), withString: " ")
        }

    }

    return returnString
}

Then then here is where you would implement the function, put this in your viewDidLoad method:

aTextField.delegate = self  
aTextField.addTarget(self, action: "validateTextFields:", forControlEvents: UIControlEvents.EditingChanged)

And this one somewhere in the class that's your textfield delegate:

func validateTextFields(sender:AnyObject){

    if let textField = sender as? UITextField {

        if textField == aTextField {

            if let currentCurserPosition = aTextField?.selectedTextRange {

                var isEndOfString = false

                let currentCurserPositionInteger = textField.offsetFromPosition(textField.beginningOfDocument, toPosition: currentCurserPosition.start)

                if currentCurserPositionInteger == count(textField.text){

                    isEndOfString = true
                }

                aTextField?.text = returnMaskedPhoneField(textField.text)

                if isEndOfString == false {
                    aTextField?.selectedTextRange = currentCurserPosition
                }

            }else {

                aTextField?.text = returnMaskedPhoneField(textField.text)
            }
        }
    }
}

And it will work like:

Credits:

http://pjeremymalouf.com/creating-a-text-mask-in-swift/

And if you want to use custom textField then you can use AKMaskField.

Where you can find textField for phone like this: