UILabel with 2 lines, how to truncate each line independently?

Question

I'm trying to display a UILabel with 2 lines with something like this:

"Here is the first line (a long one) and that's it"
"And this is the second line with random number of chars"

With Truncate Tail it displays this:

"Here is the first line (a long one) and that's ..."

My goal is to display:

"Here is the first line (a long .."
"And this is the second line wit.."

Is there a way to do this with UILabel set to 2 lines and without using 2 UILabel's ?

Answer 1

Split the string on \\n to create two strings. Then create 2 UILabels set to numberOfLines = 1 and lineBreakMode = .ByTruncatingTail . Lay them out in the view, one on top of the other.

Answer 2

First, you need to set the numbers of lines to 0(infinite number of lines);

textLabel.numberOfLines = 0;

Next, you can break wherever you want by doing this:

textLabel.text = "str1 \n str2"