I just want to see whether there is an established way to do this, or how one would go about this.
I have a text field that essentially acts as a form in my iOs app where a user can post something. I can't have users posting swear words/inappropriate crap, so I want to filter out and display an error if the string they enter contains one of these words.
How do other apps in Swift do this? Do they just search through the string to see if it contains the word (obviously not within other words, but standing alone) or is there another method?
How can I accurately filter out the swear words from my user post in Swift?
Construct a list of words you consider to be swear words, and simply check the user entered string whether any of these words are contained within the string.
Swift 3:
import Foundation
func containsSwearWord(text: String, swearWords: [String]) -> Bool {
return swearWords
.reduce(false) { $0 || text.contains($1.lowercased()) }
}
// example usage
let listOfSwearWords = ["darn", "crap", "newb"]
/* list as lower case */
let userEnteredText1 = "This darn didelo thread is a no no."
let userEnteredText2 = "This fine didelo thread is a go."
print(containsSwearWord(text: userEnteredText1, swearWords: listOfSwearWords)) // true
print(containsSwearWord(text: userEnteredText2, swearWords: listOfSwearWords)) // false
Swift 2.2:
import Foundation
func containsSwearWord(text: String, swearWords: [String]) -> Bool {
return swearWords
.reduce(false) { $0 || text.containsString($1.lowercaseString) }
}
// example usage
let listOfSwearWords = ["darn", "crap", "newb"]
/* list as lower case */
let userEnteredText1 = "This darn didelo thread is a no no."
let userEnteredText2 = "This fine didelo thread is a go."
print(containsSwearWord(userEnteredText1, swearWords: listOfSwearWords)) // true
print(containsSwearWord(userEnteredText2, swearWords: listOfSwearWords)) // false
I created a class that enables you to feed a string in and remove profanity. Here's a link to the repo.
Here's the code:
class ProfanityFilter: NSObject {
static let sharedInstance = ProfanityFilter()
private override init() {}
// Customize as needed
private let dirtyWords = "\\b(ducker|mother ducker|motherducker|shot|bad word|another bad word|)\\b"
// Courtesy of Martin R
// https://stackoverflow.com/users/1187415/martin-r
private func matches(for regex: String, in text: String) -> [String] {
do {
let regex = try NSRegularExpression(pattern: regex, options: [.caseInsensitive])
let nsString = text as NSString
let results = regex.matches(in: text, range: NSRange(location: 0, length: nsString.length))
return results.map { nsString.substring(with: $0.range)}
} catch let error {
print("invalid regex: \(error.localizedDescription)")
return []
}
}
public func cleanUp(_ string: String) -> String {
let dirtyWords = matches(for: self.dirtyWords, in: string)
if dirtyWords.count == 0 {
return string
} else {
var newString = string
dirtyWords.forEach({ dirtyWord in
let newWord = String(repeating: "