Question

I have a TextView and I need to insert a word in a string from the location. Use this method to derive the location

NSInteger location = textView.selectedRange.location;

But I do not know how to put this into a string.

Thanks a lot

Answer 1

If you want to replace the selection with a word, the simplest would be something like this:

NSRange range = textView.selectedRange;
if (range.location != NSNotFound) {
    NSString *replacement = @"some word";
    textView.text = [textView.text stringByReplacingCharactersInRange:range
                                                           withString:replacement];
}

For an empty selection, this would insert the text at the caret position, if text is selected, it would be replaced. On iOS 5, using the methods in the UITextInput protocol would probably be more efficient, but also more cumbersome to use.