Useful UISearchBar Extensions

Useful UISearchBar Extensions

• If you want to access the TextField inside the UISearchBar and want to set the properties
  
  extension UISearchBar{ public var textField: UITextField? { let subViews = subviews.flatMap { $0.subviews } guard let textField = (subViews.filter { $0 is UITextField }).first as? UITextField else { return nil } return textField } }

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  extension UISearchBar{     public var textField: UITextField? {         let subViews = subviews.flatMap { $0.subviews }         guard let textField = (subViews.filter { $0 is UITextField }).first as? UITextField else {             return nil         }         return textField     } }

• If you want to remove the whitespaces and newline character from UISearchBar

extension UISearchBar{ public var trimmedText: String? { return text?.trimmingCharacters(in: .whitespacesAndNewlines) } }

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extension UISearchBar{     public var trimmedText: String? {         return text?.trimmingCharacters(in: .whitespacesAndNewlines)     } }

• If you want to clear text of UISearchBar, use this method

extension UISearchBar{ public func clear() { text = "" } }

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extension UISearchBar{     public func clear() {         text = ""     } }