How to remove special characters from string in Swift 2?

Question

The answer in How to strip special characters out of string? is not working.

Here is what I got and it gives me an error

func removeSpecialCharsFromString(str: String) -> String {     let chars: Set<String> = Set(arrayLiteral: "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz ABCDEFGHIJKLKMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1234567890+-*=(),.:!_")      return String(str.characters.filter { chars.contains($0) }) //error here at $0 } 

The error at $0 says

_Element (aka Character) cannot be converted to expected argument type 'String'.

Answer 1

Like this:

func removeSpecialCharsFromString(text: String) -> String {     let okayChars : Set<Character> =          Set("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz ABCDEFGHIJKLKMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1234567890+-*=(),.:!_".characters)     return String(text.characters.filter {okayChars.contains($0) }) } 

And here's how to test:

let s = removeSpecialCharsFromString("père") // "pre"