How can I use String substring in Swift 4? 'substring(to:)' is deprecated: Please use String slicing subscript with a 'partial range from' operator

You should leave one side empty, hence the name "partial range".

let newStr = str[..<index]

The same stands for partial range from operators, just leave the other side empty:

let newStr = str[index...]

Keep in mind that these range operators return a Substring. If you want to convert it to a string, use String's initialization function:

let newStr = String(str[..<index])

You can read more about the new substrings here.

Convert Substring (Swift 3) to String Slicing (Swift 4)

Examples In Swift 3, 4:

let newStr = str.substring(to: index) // Swift 3
let newStr = String(str[..<index]) // Swift 4

let newStr = str.substring(from: index) // Swift 3
let newStr = String(str[index...]) // Swift 4 

let range = firstIndex..<secondIndex // If you have a range
let newStr = = str.substring(with: range) // Swift 3
let newStr = String(str[range])  // Swift 4

Swift 5, 4

Usage

let text = "Hello world"
text[0] // H
text[...3] // "Hell"
text[6..<text.count] // world
text[NSRange(location: 6, length: 3)] // wor

Code

import Foundation

public extension String {
  subscript(value: Int) -> Character {
    self[index(at: value)]
  }
}

public extension String {
  subscript(value: NSRange) -> Substring {
    self[value.lowerBound..<value.upperBound]
  }
}

public extension String {
  subscript(value: CountableClosedRange<Int>) -> Substring {
    self[index(at: value.lowerBound)...index(at: value.upperBound)]
  }

  subscript(value: CountableRange<Int>) -> Substring {
    self[index(at: value.lowerBound)..<index(at: value.upperBound)]
  }

  subscript(value: PartialRangeUpTo<Int>) -> Substring {
    self[..<index(at: value.upperBound)]
  }

  subscript(value: PartialRangeThrough<Int>) -> Substring {
    self[...index(at: value.upperBound)]
  }

  subscript(value: PartialRangeFrom<Int>) -> Substring {
    self[index(at: value.lowerBound)...]
  }
}

private extension String {
  func index(at offset: Int) -> String.Index {
    index(startIndex, offsetBy: offset)
  }
}

Shorter in Swift 4/5:

let string = "123456"
let firstThree = String(string.prefix(3)) //"123"
let lastThree = String(string.suffix(3)) //"456"

The conversion of your code to Swift 4 can also be done this way:

let str = "Hello, playground"
let index = str.index(of: ",")!
let substr = str.prefix(upTo: index)

You can use the code below to have a new string:

let newString = String(str.prefix(upTo: index))

Swift5

(Java's substring method):

extension String {
    func subString(from: Int, to: Int) -> String {
       let startIndex = self.index(self.startIndex, offsetBy: from)
       let endIndex = self.index(self.startIndex, offsetBy: to)
       return String(self[startIndex..<endIndex])
    }
}

Usage:

var str = "Hello, Nick Michaels"
print(str.subString(from:7,to:20))
// print Nick Michaels

substring(from: index) Converted to [index...]

Check the sample

let text = "1234567890"
let index = text.index(text.startIndex, offsetBy: 3)

text.substring(from: index) // "4567890"   [Swift 3]
String(text[index...])      // "4567890"   [Swift 4]

Some useful extensions:

extension String {
    func substring(from: Int, to: Int) -> String {
        let start = index(startIndex, offsetBy: from)
        let end = index(start, offsetBy: to - from)
        return String(self[start ..< end])
    }

    func substring(range: NSRange) -> String {
        return substring(from: range.lowerBound, to: range.upperBound)
    }
}

Example of uppercasedFirstCharacter convenience property in Swift3 and Swift4.

Property uppercasedFirstCharacterNew demonstrates how to use String slicing subscript in Swift4.

extension String {

   public var uppercasedFirstCharacterOld: String {
      if characters.count > 0 {
         let splitIndex = index(after: startIndex)
         let firstCharacter = substring(to: splitIndex).uppercased()
         let sentence = substring(from: splitIndex)
         return firstCharacter + sentence
      } else {
         return self
      }
   }

   public var uppercasedFirstCharacterNew: String {
      if characters.count > 0 {
         let splitIndex = index(after: startIndex)
         let firstCharacter = self[..<splitIndex].uppercased()
         let sentence = self[splitIndex...]
         return firstCharacter + sentence
      } else {
         return self
      }
   }
}

let lorem = "lorem".uppercasedFirstCharacterOld
print(lorem) // Prints "Lorem"

let ipsum = "ipsum".uppercasedFirstCharacterNew
print(ipsum) // Prints "Ipsum"

You can create your custom subString method using extension to class String as below:

extension String {
    func subString(startIndex: Int, endIndex: Int) -> String {
        let end = (endIndex - self.count) + 1
        let indexStartOfText = self.index(self.startIndex, offsetBy: startIndex)
        let indexEndOfText = self.index(self.endIndex, offsetBy: end)
        let substring = self[indexStartOfText..<indexEndOfText]
        return String(substring)
    }
}

Creating SubString (prefix and suffix) from String using Swift 4:

let str : String = "ilike"
for i in 0...str.count {
    let index = str.index(str.startIndex, offsetBy: i) // String.Index
    let prefix = str[..<index] // String.SubSequence
    let suffix = str[index...] // String.SubSequence
    print("prefix \(prefix), suffix : \(suffix)")
}

Output

prefix , suffix : ilike
prefix i, suffix : like
prefix il, suffix : ike
prefix ili, suffix : ke
prefix ilik, suffix : e
prefix ilike, suffix : 

If you want to generate a substring between 2 indices , use :

let substring1 = string[startIndex...endIndex] // including endIndex
let subString2 = string[startIndex..<endIndex] // excluding endIndex