iphone - UILabel touch and get the text where touched

Question

I've UILabel which has some text and 2 month names like "In the month of January and July, sun shine will be peak" I sub classed UILabel and added touch event to it. Now I want to get the word below the text where user touched and find out whether user touched January/July or not. Is it possible?

Answer 1

I think you'll find what you're looking for in the documentation for UITextInputProtocol.

For some more high level information, check out Apple's Text, Web and Editing Guide, specifically in the section titled "A Guided Tour of a UITextInput Implementation". It discusses how you can create indexed positions in text, and ask touches what text position they've landed nearest.

Apple's references a sample projected called SimpleTextInput, but I can't seem to find it. I'll keep looking.