ios - Email & Phone Validation in Swift

Question

i am using the following code for phone number validation. But i am getting the following error. I cant able to proceed further. Help us to take it forward.

class PhoneNumberValidation: Validation {
    let PHONE_REGEX = "^\d{3}-\d{3}-\d{4}$"

    func validate(value: String) -> (Bool, ValidationErrorType) {
        if let phoneTest = NSPredicate(format: "SELF MATCHES %@", PHONE_REGEX) {
            if phoneTest.evaluateWithObject(value) {
                return (true, .NoError)
            }
            return (false, .PhoneNumber)
        }
        return (false, .PhoneNumber)
    }
}

Error : swift:15:28: Bound value in a conditional binding must be of Optional type

Answer 1

Yes your Error is below in XCode 6.1

This error is occurs because of if conditional have to Bool return type, but in Your if condition Return type is NSPredicate so that you got error swift: Bound value in a conditional binding must be of Optional type you can solve as below.

    var phoneTest = NSPredicate(format: "SELF MATCHES %@", PHONE_REGEX)
         if phoneTest.evaluateWithObject(value) {
                  return (true, .NoError)
             }
                 return (false, .PhoneNumber)
            }

Email-Validations in Swift.

    func isValidEmail(testStr:String) -> Bool {
            print("validate emilId: (testStr)")
            let emailRegEx = "^(?:(?:(?:(?: )*(?:(?:(?:\t| )*\r\n)?(?:\t| )+))+(?: )*)|(?: )+)?(?:(?:(?:[-A-Za-z0-9!#$%&’*+/=?^_'{|}~]+(?:\.[-A-Za-z0-9!#$%&’*+/=?^_'{|}~]+)*)|(?:"(?:(?:(?:(?: )*(?:(?:[!#-Z^-~]|\[|\])|(?:\\(?:\t|[ -~]))))+(?: )*)|(?: )+)"))(?:@)(?:(?:(?:[A-Za-z0-9](?:[-A-Za-z0-9]{0,61}[A-Za-z0-9])?)(?:\.[A-Za-z0-9](?:[-A-Za-z0-9]{0,61}[A-Za-z0-9])?)*)|(?:\[(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:[0-9]|(?:[1-9][0-9])|(?:1[0-9][0-9])|(?:2[0-4][0-9])|(?:25[0-5]))\.){3}(?:[0-9]|(?:[1-9][0-9])|(?:1[0-9][0-9])|(?:2[0-4][0-9])|(?:25[0-5]))))|(?:(?:(?: )*[!-Z^-~])*(?: )*)|(?:[Vv][0-9A-Fa-f]+\.[-A-Za-z0-9._~!$&'()*+,;=:]+))\])))(?:(?:(?:(?: )*(?:(?:(?:\t| )*\r\n)?(?:\t| )+))+(?: )*)|(?: )+)?$"
            let emailTest = NSPredicate(format:"SELF MATCHES %@", emailRegEx)
            let result = emailTest.evaluateWithObject(testStr)
            return result
        } 

Use of Email-validation:

    if isValidEmail("kirit@gmail.com"){
            print("Validate EmailID")
        }
        else{
            print("invalide EmailID")
        }

Phone-Number Validation in Swift

    func validate(value: String) -> Bool {
            let PHONE_REGEX = "^\d{3}-\d{3}-\d{4}$"
            let phoneTest = NSPredicate(format: "SELF MATCHES %@", PHONE_REGEX)
            let result = phoneTest.evaluate(with: value)
            return result
        }