iOS: Fixed the bug where a Backspace event was emitted when entering …

…characters after clearing a text in TextInput by an empty string (#18627)

Summary:
The bug #18374 was caused by the loose condition to execute `stringByReplacingCharactersInRange` in the method `textInputShouldChangeTextInRange` . As a result, `findMismatch` wrongly returning `true` which ends up the Backspace event being fired in another `textInputShouldChangeTextInRange` call in `textInputDidChange`.

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1. Pass all the tests by `yarn run test`
2. Run the following code and type any text. (This code is brought from #18374. Thank you michalpetrov!!) And then verify that 'Backspace' events are not emitted after clearing text
and entering any letters.

```javascript
type Props = {};
type State = {
  text: string,
  keys: string
};
export default class App extends Component<Props, State> {
  state = {text: '', keys: ''}
  render() {
    return (
      <View style={styles.container}>
        <TextInput style={styles.textInput} value={this.state.text} onChangeText={this.onChangeText} onKeyPress={this.onKeyPress}/>
        <Button title="Clear" onPress={this.onClear}/>
        <Text>Text: {this.state.text}</Text>
        <Text>Keys: {this.state.keys}</Text>
      </View>
    );
  }

  onChangeText = (text: string) => {
    this.setState({text})
  }

  onKeyPress = ({ nativeEvent }: Object) => {
    this.setState({keys: this.state.keys + nativeEvent.key + ', '})
  }

  onClear = () => {
    this.setState({text: '', keys: ''})
  }
}
```

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[IOS] [BUGFIX] [TextInput] - Fixed the bug where Backspace event was emitted when entering a character after clearing a text in TextInput by an empty string

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Closes #18627

Differential Revision: D8436331

Pulled By: hramos

fbshipit-source-id: ec75a6ca926061cbf7cb106db652f2b4a71c9a0c

Libraries/Text/TextInput/RCTBaseTextInputView.m

@@ -306,7 +306,12 @@ - (BOOL)textInputShouldChangeTextInRange:(NSRange)range replacementText:(NSStrin
 
   NSString *previousText = [_predictedText substringWithRange:range] ?: @"";
 
-  if (_predictedText) {
+  // After clearing the text by replacing it with an empty string, `_predictedText`
+  // still preserves the deleted text.
+  // As the first character in the TextInput always comes with the range value (0, 0),
+  // we should check the range value in order to avoid appending a character to the deleted string
+  // (which caused the issue #18374)
+  if (!NSEqualRanges(range, NSMakeRange(0, 0)) && _predictedText) {
     _predictedText = [_predictedText stringByReplacingCharactersInRange:range withString:text];
   } else {
     _predictedText = text;