与Objective-C中的NSString相比，Swift中的变量类型String包含不同的函数。Sulthan提到过，

Swift String没有实现RandomAccessIndex

你能做的是向下转换你的变量类型String到NSString(这是有效的Swift)。这将给你访问NSString中的函数。

var str = "abcdefghi" as NSString
str.rangeOfString("c").locationx   // returns 2

斯威夫特3

extension String {
        func substring(from:String) -> String
        {
            let searchingString = from
            let rangeOfSearchingString = self.range(of: searchingString)!
            let indexOfSearchingString: Int = self.distance(from: self.startIndex, to: rangeOfSearchingString.upperBound )
            let trimmedString = self.substring(start: indexOfSearchingString , end: self.count)
            
            return trimmedString
        }
        
    }

斯威夫特5

查找子字符串的索引

let str = "abcdecd"
if let range: Range<String.Index> = str.range(of: "cd") {
    let index: Int = str.distance(from: str.startIndex, to: range.lowerBound)
    print("index: ", index) //index: 2
}
else {
    print("substring not found")
}

查找字符索引

let str = "abcdecd"
if let firstIndex = str.firstIndex(of: "c") {
    let index: Int = str.distance(from: str.startIndex, to: firstIndex)
    print("index: ", index)   //index: 2
}
else {
    print("symbol not found")
}

    // Using Swift 4, the code below works.
    // The problem is that String.index is a struct. Use dot notation to grab the integer part of it that you want: ".encodedOffset"
    let strx = "0123456789ABCDEF"
    let si = strx.index(of: "A")
    let i = si?.encodedOffset       // i will be an Int. You need "?" because it might be nil, no such character found.

    if i != nil {                   // You MUST deal with the optional, unwrap it only if not nil.
        print("i = ",i)
        print("i = ",i!)            // "!" str1ps off "optional" specification (unwraps i).
            // or
        let ii = i!
        print("ii = ",ii)

    }
    // Good luck.

仔细想想，你其实并不需要位置的确切Int版本。范围甚至是字符串。如果需要，Index足以再次获取子字符串:

let myString = "hello"

let rangeOfE = myString.rangeOfString("e")

if let rangeOfE = rangeOfE {
    myString.substringWithRange(rangeOfE) // e
    myString[rangeOfE] // e

    // if you do want to create your own range
    // you can keep the index as a String.Index type
    let index = rangeOfE.startIndex
    myString.substringWithRange(Range<String.Index>(start: index, end: advance(index, 1))) // e

    // if you really really need the 
    // Int version of the index:
    let numericIndex = distance(index, advance(index, 1)) // 1 (type Int)
}

这对我很有效，

var loc = "abcdefghi".rangeOfString("c").location
NSLog("%d", loc);

这也奏效了，

var myRange: NSRange = "abcdefghi".rangeOfString("c")
var loc = myRange.location
NSLog("%d", loc);