UITextView change text color of specific text

Question

I want to change the text color of a specific text within a UITextView which matches an index of an array. I was able to slightly modify this answer but unfortunatly the text color of each matching phrase is only changed once.

var chordsArray = ["Cmaj", "Bbmaj7"]

func getColoredText(textView: UITextView) -> NSMutableAttributedString {

    let text = textView.text

    let string:NSMutableAttributedString = NSMutableAttributedString(string: text)

    let words:[String] = text.componentsSeparatedByString(" ")

    for word in words {

        if (chordsArray.contains(word)) {

            let range:NSRange = (string.string as NSString).rangeOfString(word)

            string.addAttribute(NSForegroundColorAttributeName, value: UIColor.redColor(), range: range)

        }

    }

    chords.attributedText = string

    return string

}

Outcome

outcome

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Answer 1

Sorry, I just noticed your message. Here is a working example (tested in a playground):

import UIKit


func apply (string: NSMutableAttributedString, word: String) -> NSMutableAttributedString {
    let range = (string.string as NSString).rangeOfString(word)
    return apply(string, word: word, range: range, last: range)
}

func apply (string: NSMutableAttributedString, word: String, range: NSRange, last: NSRange) -> NSMutableAttributedString {
    if range.location != NSNotFound {
        string.addAttribute(NSForegroundColorAttributeName, value: UIColor.redColor(), range: range)
        let start = last.location + last.length
        let end = string.string.characters.count - start
        let stringRange = NSRange(location: start, length: end)
        let newRange = (string.string as NSString).rangeOfString(word, options: [], range: stringRange)
        apply(string, word: word, range: newRange, last: range)
    }
    return string
}

var chordsArray = ["Cmaj", "Bbmaj7"]
var text = "Cmaj Bbmaj7 I Love Swift Cmaj Bbmaj7 Swift"
var newText = NSMutableAttributedString(string: text)

for word in chordsArray {
    newText = apply(newText, word: word)
}

newText

UITextView change text color of specific text

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