Rearrange is a collection of utilities for making it easier to work with NSRange, IndexSet, and String.Index.

If you need to work with NSTextRange/UITextRange or just TextKit in general, check out Glyph.

Swift Package Manager:

dependencies: [
    .package(url: "https://github.com/ChimeHQ/Rearrange")
]

RangeMutation

This is a struct that encapsulates a single change to an NSRange. It's useful for serializing, queuing, or otherwise storing changes and applying them.

You can also use this class to tranform locations, NSRange, or even an IndexSet. This is handy for updating values as text is changed. This might seem easy, but there are a large number of edge cases that RangeMutation handles, including mutations that invalidate (for example completely delete) a range.

NSRange

// convenience
static let zero: NSRange
static let notFound: NSRange
var max: Int
// shifting
func shifted(by delta: Int) -> NSRange?
func shifted(endBy delta: Int) -> NSRange?
func shifted(startBy delta: Int) -> NSRange?
// mutating
func clamped(to limit: Int) -> NSRange
func apply(_ change: RangeMutation) -> NSRange?
// working with Swift String
func range(in string: String) -> Range<String.Index>?

IndexSet

init(integersIn range: NSRange)
init(ranges: [NSRange])
mutating func insert(range: NSRange)
mutating func insert(ranges: [NSRange])
mutating func remove(integersIn range: NSRange)
var nsRangeView: [NSRange]
func contains(integersIn range: NSRange) -> Bool
func intersects(integersIn range: NSRange) -> Bool
var limitSpanningRange: NSRange?

String

subscript(range: Range<Int>) -> Substring?
subscript(range: NSRange) -> Substring?

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