NSString+SpellMatch

This NSString category provides 2 useful functions. One function provide matching spell in string, another one provides searching spell's first letter in string. It can match uncompleted spell string. It not rely on any third party's code.

For example: To search "风雨" in "阳光总在风雨后", You can just input:

1. pinyin's first letter:

   fy or Fy, fY, FY.

The uppercase state doesn't matter. Where f is the first letter of "风"'s pinyin string: feng, y is the first letter of "雨"'s pinyin string: yu;

Or input : 2. complete pinying string：

fengyu

3. incomplete pinying string:

   fengy

Features

Match spell's first letter; or match spell string. Return first match string or all matched strings.

Installation

Just add the following 2 files into your project:

NSString+SpellMatch.h
NSString+SpellMatch.m

Usage:

Create an NSString object(ie. str) your will be searching for. Use function:

[str spellMatch:matchString];

or

[str fullSpellMatch:matchString];

to return the first matched result string;

or

[str spellsMatch:matchString];

to return all matched result strings.

or

[str spellsWithRangeValuesMatch:matchString];

to return all matched result strings and its ranges in original string.

where: parameter: "matchString" is a nullable string to be matched.

More details:

See this website address for function design details. https://www.jianshu.com/p/33f29eb598d9

Licence

SpellMatch category is available under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for detail.