Max length UITextField

Question

When I\'ve tried How to you set the maximum number of characters that can be entered into a UITextField using swift?, I saw that if I use all 10 characters, I can\'t erase t

Answer 1

You can use in swift 5 or swift 4 like image look like bellow

1. Add textField in View Controller
2. Connect to text to ViewController

3. add the code in view ViewController

    class ViewController: UIViewController , UITextFieldDelegate {
   
     @IBOutlet weak var txtName: UITextField!
   
     var maxLen:Int = 8;
   
    override func viewDidLoad() {
       super.viewDidLoad()
   
       txtName.delegate = self
      }
   
    func textField(_ textField: UITextField, shouldChangeCharactersIn range: NSRange, replacementString string: String) -> Bool {
   
        if(textField == txtName){
           let currentText = textField.text! + string
           return currentText.count <= maxLen
        }
   
        return true;
      }
   }
   

You can download Full Source form GitHub: https://github.com/enamul95/TextFieldMaxLen