UILabel with trailing spaces doesn't center properly

Question

I have a string that is a random sequence of numbers including spaces

NSString *myString;

I print that to a label

_myLabel.text = myString;

I wanted it to be centered, so I use

myLabel.textAlignment = NSTextAlignmentCenter;

But it doesn't work properly. When centering, it ignore any trailing zeros. But the trailing zeros are characters too! Can I make it recognize them?

Answer 1

The way text works on label is - it is formatted by standard formatting information - like trimming etc. If you don't want ios to take control on that. You can programmatically set attributedText. this does not go thru formatting. Here is apple's documentation on that

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attributedText The styled text displayed by the label.

@property(nonatomic,copy) NSAttributedString *attributedText

Discussion

This property is nil by default. Assigning a new value to this property also replaces the value of the text property with the same string data, albeit without any formatting information. In addition, assigning a new a value updates the values in the font , textColor , and other style-related properties so that they reflect the style information starting at location 0 in the attributed string.