Question

How to truncate a string in Objective-C and then add the ellipsis at the end?

Answer 1

NSString *origString = @"A very long string blah blah blah";
const int clipLength = 18;
if([origString length]>clipLength)
{
    origString = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@...",[origString substringToIndex:clipLength]];
}