Question

If this is a repeat, let me know and I’ll remove it immediately–I’ve had the devil of a time searching for the answer, since “\t” returns searches without the forward slash.

I need to find the width of an NSString that contains begins with \t\t . Using sizeWithFont doesn’t do it, since it just ignores the space. Is there a way to measure how much space the tab takes up?

Answer 1

Not sure what your code was but this seemed to work for me.

NSString *delMessage = @"\t";
CGSize theSize = [delMessage sizeWithFont:[UIFont fontWithName:@"American Typewriter" size:30]];
NSLog(@"length %f",theSize.width);

log was length 8.000000

NSString *delMessage = @"\t\t";
CGSize theSize = [delMessage sizeWithFont:[UIFont fontWithName:@"American Typewriter" size:30]];
NSLog(@"length %f",theSize.width);

log was length 16.000000