Email & Phone Validation in Swift

To validate email and phone in swift language we can use multiple conditional statements like if conditions, but that’s a long process and may contain 50-100s of if statements to validate email.

So instead of conditionals we’ll use Regular expression. Swift provides NSPredicates which we can use to evaluate a regular expression and test them.

Let’s see how we can use regular expressions to do the same.

We’ll create a function which we can use as extension of String class or UIViewController to use through out the project.

Add the following code to any class in your Project, or create a separate swift class to add extension.

extension String {
   var isValidEmail: Bool {
      let regularExpressionForEmail = "[A-Z0-9a-z._%+-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\\.[A-Za-z]{2,64}"
      let testEmail = NSPredicate(format:"SELF MATCHES %@", regularExpressionForEmail)
      return testEmail.evaluate(with: self)
   }
   var isValidPhone: Bool {
      let regularExpressionForPhone = "^\\d{3}-\\d{3}-\\d{4}$"
      let testPhone = NSPredicate(format:"SELF MATCHES %@", regularExpressionForPhone)
      return testPhone.evaluate(with: self)
   }
}

The same can be used like

override func viewDidLoad() {
   super.viewDidLoad()
   print("11f".isValidEmail)
   print("abc@xuyz.com".isValidEmail)
   print("8892".isValidPhone)
   print("998-877-2211".isValidPhone)
}

When we run the above code, we get the following output.

false
true
false
true