Limit Text to number of lines 3

Question

I have to show some text in UILabel and append read more if the text goes beyond 3 number of lines. It works fine if I set number of lines = 3 and trim the text to 120 characters or so. But if the text contains newline character then this fails.

How to handle this.

func formatText() -> String {
        var formatString = self.review_description
        var maxLimit = 140
        if self.review_link != nil {
            maxLimit  = 120
        }

        if formatString.count > maxLimit {
            let substring = formatString.dropLast(formatString.count - maxLimit)
            formatString = String(substring) + "... " + AppConstants.readMoreText
        }

        if self.review_link != nil {
            formatString = formatString + " \(AppConstants.reviewSourceText)"
        }

        return formatString
    }

Answer 1

try this

make your number of lines for label as 0. because new line won't increase your char count at all