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# Accessing Indicies Within an Attributed String

Access a position within an attributed string, offset from the beginning, or before or after another known position.

## Topics

### Accessing Terminal Indices

[`var startIndex: AttributedString.Index`](/documentation/Foundation/AttributedString/startIndex)

The position of the first character in a nonempty attributed string.

[`var endIndex: AttributedString.Index`](/documentation/Foundation/AttributedString/endIndex)

The string’s past-the-end position — the position one greater than the last valid subscript argument.

### Accessing Indices by Offset

### Accessing Indices Before a Known Position

### Accessing Indicies After a Known Position

### Supporting Types

[`struct Index`](/documentation/Foundation/AttributedString/Index)

A type that represents the position of a character or code unit within an attributed string.


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