Swift Challenge 009: Count upper and lower case letters in a string

Challenge: Write a program to count upper and lower case letters in a given string.

Test Cases:

• Hello World should return 2 & 8
• Hello 123 World $# should also return 2 & 8

Logic:

• Swift doesn’t have any string functions to identify upper or lower case characters
• So write extensions to identify upper and lower case characters
• Use regular expressions & rangeOfString to identify upper and lower case characters

Code:

import Foundation

extension Character {
  func isUpper() -> Bool {
    if String(self).rangeOfString("[A-Z]", options: .RegularExpressionSearch) != nil {
      return true
    }
     return false
  }
}

extension Character {
  func isLower() -> Bool {
    if String(self).rangeOfString("[a-z]", options: .RegularExpressionSearch) != nil {
      return true
    }
     return false
  }
}

let inputString = "Hello @World #[email protected]"
var (upper,lower) = (0,0)

for c in inputString.characters {
  if c.isUpper() {
    upper += 1
  }

  if c.isLower() {
    lower += 1
  }
}

print(upper, lower)

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