Does UITextView have a String which stores all words as text?

Question

Does a UITextView have just one String which contains all words as a text? I am curious about an idea which I came up with. Can I do something to words added into the UITextView? Like am I able to detect offensive words or bad words by making an array?

If I have an array called myArray. Inside this array, for example, 'badword1', 'badword2', and 'badword3' are stored. If words of these are inputed.

My thought was in the following;

1. create a UITextView called myTextView and set over a UIViewController, and then connect myTextView.
2. Create an array called myArray. Inside this array, prohibited words are stored.

3. maybe....by using a for-loop, like

   for words in myArray {
       if myTextView.contains(words) { 
           print("words are found")
       }
   }
   

   I do not think this code works, but it is my guess.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Create an extension for String

extension String{
    func contains(_ text: String, substring: String) -> Bool {


        return text.range(of: substring, options: NSString.CompareOptions.literal) != nil
    }
}

Then you can do this-

for words in myArray {
if myTextView.text.contains(words) { 
    print("words are found")
}
}