Checking if string contains emojis or dingbats characters in Swift

Just recently, in one our iOS apps, we’ve had to implement a system to check if strings had emojis in order to parse them, and it is as simple as :

extension String {

    var containsEmoji: Bool {
        for scalar in unicodeScalars {
            switch scalar.value {
            case 0x1F600...0x1F64F, // Emoticons
                 0x1F300...0x1F5FF, // Misc Symbols and Pictographs
                 0x1F680...0x1F6FF, // Transport and Map
                 0x2600...0x26FF,   // Misc symbols
                 0x2700...0x27BF,   // Dingbats
                 0xFE00...0xFE0F:   // Variation Selectors
                return true
            default:
                continue
            }
        }
        return false
    }

}