FEATURE - Highlight Hashtags

[mikaelacaron]

Describe the solution you'd like

• Highlight the hashtag like Twitter

Additional context
No need to have a hyperlink to the hashtag on Twitter, this is only to help highlight hashtags vs all the other words in a tweet

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[IgorChernyshov]

Hi Mikaela, could you please assign this one to me? I'd like work on it.

[Mcrich23]

Can I work on this?

[Mcrich23]

So I got it working with this code:

struct TweetBodyView: View {
    @State var tweetBody: String
    var body: some View {
        hilightedText(str: tweetBody, searched: "#")
            .multilineTextAlignment(.leading)
            .font(.body)
            .lineSpacing(8.0)
            .padding(EdgeInsets(top: 0, leading: 18, bottom: 18, trailing: 18))
            .fixedSize(horizontal: false, vertical: true)
    }
    
    func hilightedText(str: String, searched: String) -> Text {
        guard !str.isEmpty && !searched.isEmpty else { return Text(str) }
        
        var result: Text!
        let parts = str.components(separatedBy: searched)
        for i in parts.indices {
            result = (result == nil ? Text(parts[i]) : result + Text(parts[i]))
            if i != parts.count - 1 {
                let range = str.replacingOccurrences(of: "\n", with: " ").components(separatedBy: " ").filter({ stri in
                    stri.contains(searched)
                })
                print("preresult = \(result), range = \(range)")
                print("tex = \(range[i])")
                result = result + Text(range[i])
                    .bold()
                    .foregroundColor(.blue)
            }
        }
        return result ?? Text(str)
    }
}

However, then all the hashtags are duplicated. Any ideas?

[mikaelacaron]

Have you pushed this to your current branch? I can take a look.
Also be sure to use useful names, not stri, str, or tex

[MarshallARoss]

I'd like to take a crack at this one please 😄

[MarshallARoss]

Submitted the pull request for this ✅

[MarshallARoss]

@mikaelacaron Please help. I've been trying to squash for 3 hours and it's not working. I've read your linked guide, YouTubed, stack overflowed, Googled. I'm literally at my wits end and I don't want to mess anything up.

[mikaelacaron]

DM me on Insta or Twitter, links here, and we can coordinate a time to pair