Find out indexPath of cell - ios

Question

I have a few UITableViewCells with the labels Test1, Test2, Test3, Test4 and Test5. How can I find out the indexPath of the cell which displays Test3? I don't wanna touch the cell or do something like this. Thanks for your answers!
The cells:
Core Data model:

Answer 1

Create a class variable reference to the cell, and then in cellForRow assign the cell with the "Test3" label to your class variable.
var test3Cell: UITableViewCell?
// ...
override func tableView(tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {
let cell = ... // Declaration here
// set up the cell
if cell.textLabel?.text == "Test3" {
self.test3Cell = cell
}
return cell
}

Answer 2

Doing it at the cell level seems backwards — your data model (the table’s UITableViewDataSource) would seem much easier to query.

Answer 3

If you have a reference to the label you can use indexPathForRowAtPoint.
let pointInTable = sender.convertPoint(theLabel.bounds.origin, toView: self.tableView)
let indexPath = self.tableView.indexPathForRowAtPoint(pointInTable)
indexPath where indexPath is an optional.

Answer 4

How are you populating the table? If you are populating the label in the cell of tableview using the content from an NSArray.. you can find the indexpath from the index of the item in the Array obj..
If not, the way i can think of is to loop through the table cells in the tableView
The table view responds to the below methods
func numberOfSections() -> Int
func numberOfRowsInSection(section: Int) -> Int
you can create an NSIndexPath instance using the above information for each row .. NSIndexPath(forRow: , inSection: )
get the UITableviewCell instance using
func tableView(tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) -> UITableViewCell
then you can check the text of label in the cell to see if it matches what you need.

Answer 5

This method will check your current visible cells within the tableview and iterate through them looking for the text.
// Swift 1.2
// Store current visable cells in an array
let currentCells = tableView.visibleCells() as Array
// Iterate through cells looking for a match
for cell in currentCells {
println (cell.textLabel?!.text)
if cell.textLabel?!.text == "Test 3" {
println("Test 3 Found")
}
}
// Swift 2.0
// Store current visable cells in an array
let currentCells = tableView.visibleCells
// Iterate through cells looking for a match
for cell in currentCells where cell.textLabel?.text == "Test 3" {
print("Test 3 found")
}