Disallow words less than 3 characters

Question

In the Swift code below, the user chooses a word and types it into a text box, now how to disallow the words entered if less than 3 characters in length?

func isReal (word: String) -> Bool {
    //return true
    let checker = UITextChecker()
    let range = NSMakeRange(0, word.utf16.count)
    let misspelledRange = checker.rangeOfMisspelledWord(in: word, range: range, startingAt: 0, wrap: false, language: "en")
    return misspelledRange.location == NSNotFound
}

Answer 1

You can just add an if to check if the word has more than 3 characters:

func isReal (word: String) -> Bool {
    if word.characters.count >= 3 {
        //return true
        let checker = UITextChecker()
        let range = NSMakeRange(0, word.utf16.count)
        let misspelledRange = checker.rangeOfMisspelledWord(in: word, range: range, startingAt: 0, wrap: false, language: "en")
        return misspelledRange.location == NSNotFound
    } else {
        return false
    }
}

This way, if word is shorter than 3 characters, it will return false, otherwise, it will test against the UITextChecker() and then return true or false respectively

EDIT: Alternative using guard:

func isReal (word: String) -> Bool {
    guard word.characters.count >= 3 else {
        return false
    }

    //return true
    let checker = UITextChecker()
    let range = NSMakeRange(0, word.utf16.count)
    let misspelledRange = checker.rangeOfMisspelledWord(in: word, range: range, startingAt: 0, wrap: false, language: "en")
    return misspelledRange.location == NSNotFound
}

If the guard statement is not met (being word.characters.count < 3), the function will automatically return false