下面是一个干净的String扩展，回答了这个问题:

斯威夫特3:

extension String {
    var length:Int {
        return self.characters.count
    }

    func indexOf(target: String) -> Int? {

        let range = (self as NSString).range(of: target)

        guard range.toRange() != nil else {
            return nil
        }

        return range.location

    }
    func lastIndexOf(target: String) -> Int? {



        let range = (self as NSString).range(of: target, options: NSString.CompareOptions.backwards)

        guard range.toRange() != nil else {
            return nil
        }

        return self.length - range.location - 1

    }
    func contains(s: String) -> Bool {
        return (self.range(of: s) != nil) ? true : false
    }
}

斯威夫特2.2:

extension String {    
    var length:Int {
        return self.characters.count
    }

    func indexOf(target: String) -> Int? {

        let range = (self as NSString).rangeOfString(target)

        guard range.toRange() != nil else {
            return nil
        }

        return range.location

    }
    func lastIndexOf(target: String) -> Int? {



        let range = (self as NSString).rangeOfString(target, options: NSStringCompareOptions.BackwardsSearch)

        guard range.toRange() != nil else {
            return nil
        }

        return self.length - range.location - 1

    }
    func contains(s: String) -> Bool {
        return (self.rangeOfString(s) != nil) ? true : false
    }
}

Swift 3.0让这个更加冗长:

let string = "Hello.World"
let needle: Character = "."
if let idx = string.characters.index(of: needle) {
    let pos = string.characters.distance(from: string.startIndex, to: idx)
    print("Found \(needle) at position \(pos)")
}
else {
    print("Not found")
}

扩展:

extension String {
    public func index(of char: Character) -> Int? {
        if let idx = characters.index(of: char) {
            return characters.distance(from: startIndex, to: idx)
        }
        return nil
    }
}

在Swift 2.0中，这变得更加容易:

let string = "Hello.World"
let needle: Character = "."
if let idx = string.characters.indexOf(needle) {
    let pos = string.startIndex.distanceTo(idx)
    print("Found \(needle) at position \(pos)")
}
else {
    print("Not found")
}

扩展:

extension String {
    public func indexOfCharacter(char: Character) -> Int? {
        if let idx = self.characters.indexOf(char) {
            return self.startIndex.distanceTo(idx)
        }
        return nil
    }
}

斯威夫特1。x实现:

对于纯Swift解决方案，可以使用:

let string = "Hello.World"
let needle: Character = "."
if let idx = find(string, needle) {
    let pos = distance(string.startIndex, idx)
    println("Found \(needle) at position \(pos)")
}
else {
    println("Not found")
}

作为String的扩展:

extension String {
    public func indexOfCharacter(char: Character) -> Int? {
        if let idx = find(self, char) {
            return distance(self.startIndex, idx)
        }
        return nil
    }
}

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)
}

extension String{
    func contains(find: String)->Bool{
        return self.range(of: find) != nil
    }
}
 
func check(n:String, h:String)->Int{
    let n1 = n.lowercased()
    let h1 = h.lowercased()//lowercase to make string case insensitive
    var pos = 0 //postion of substring
    if h1.contains(n1){
       // checking if sub string exists
        if let idx = h1.firstIndex(of:n1.first!){
             let pos1 = h1.distance(from: h1.startIndex, to: idx)
           pos = pos1
        }
        return pos
    }
    else{
        return -1
    }
}
 
print(check(n:"@", h:"hithisispushker,he is 99 a good Boy"))//put substring in n: and string in h

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
        }
        
    }

我找到了swift2的解决方案:

var str = "abcdefghi"
let indexForCharacterInString = str.characters.indexOf("c") //returns 2