Ah finally solved. This was so much drama for a small thing to do. Problem: I have a string; SINCGKXXXYY . [Say these are 2 airport destinations + some junk text and i want to separate the airports out of the string in the easiest possible way!] Use the following extension:
extension String { subscript (i: Int) -> Character { return self[self.startIndex.advancedBy(i)] } subscript (i: Int) -> String { return String(self[i] as Character) } subscript (r: Range<Int>) -> String { return substringWithRange(Range(start: startIndex.advancedBy(r.startIndex), end: startIndex.advancedBy(r.endIndex))) } }Once done you can use it using this
var myCrappyJunkText:String = "SINCGKXXXYY" var firstCode = myCrappyJunkText[0...2] //Should hold SIN var 2ndCode = myCrappyJunkText[3...5] //Should hold CGKCheers!