Text parsing is something that comes up often (for me). For example parsing CSV files, or parsing tab separated data from the clipboard, or parsing various type

Text parsing is something that comes up often (for me). For example parsing CSV files, or parsing tab separated data from the clipboard, or parsing various types of config files. Swift has sweet solutions for a few special cases (eg. parse file names, parse dates, parse JSON), but parsing generic text is not something that Swift is good at. NSString has a rich set of APIs for those tasks (NSScanner, NSRegularExpression, and all the rangeOfString... methods). Swift has pretty much nothing. (There is firstIndex(of:), but as far as I can see there is no way to find the next index, which makes it pretty much useless for most parsing tasks) Maybe the problem is that I'm just not familiar enough with Swifts String, but until now every time I've had to work with Strings I became very frustrated.