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Matching prefixes in Swift strings

How do you determine if one string starts with another, in Swift?

Surely that's exactly what the hasPrefix(_:) method is for:

let greeting = "Hello"

let sentence = "hello, this is dog."

if sentence.hasPrefix(greeting) {

print("Hi! Nice to meet you!")

} else {

print("No can haz etiquette?")

}

No can haz etiquette?

Wot?

The problem is that hasPrefix is not meant for general use with human text; it's barely better than a byte-wise comparison. It only guarantees that it [...]

https://wadetregaskis.com/matching-prefixes-in-swift-strings/

Today I learned about the healing power of

[attributedString removeAttribute:@"NSOriginalFont" range:fullStringRange];

And I was wondering why the hell macOS was drawing my string in the totally wrong place.

What the hell are they doing these days?

#AppKit #macOS #Apple #NSString #BugFest #Developer #Cocoa

Today I learned about the healing power of

[attributedString removeAttribute:@"NSOriginalFont" range:fullStringRange];

And I was wondering why the hell macOS was drawing my string in the totally wrong place.

What the hell are they doing these days?

#AppKit #macOS #Apple #NSString #BugFest #Developer #Cocoa