UITextview highlight all matches swift.. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25525171/uitextview-highlight-all-matches-swift

NSRegularExpression

let searchString = "this"
let baseString = "This is some string that contains the word \"this\" more than once. This substring has multiple cases. ThisthisThIs."

let attributed = NSMutableAttributedString(string: baseString)

var error: NSError?
let regex = NSRegularExpression(pattern: searchString, options: .CaseInsensitive, error: &error)

if let regexError = error {
    println("Oh no! \(regexError)")
} else {
    for match in regex?.matchesInString(baseString, options: NSMatchingOptions.allZeros, range: NSRange(location: 0, length: baseString.utf16Count)) as [NSTextCheckingResult] {
        attributed.addAttribute(NSBackgroundColorAttributeName, value: UIColor.yellowColor(), range: match.range)
    }

    textView.attributedText = attributed
}