稍微超出了回答原来的问题，并扩展了Frouo的答案，这里有扩展来修剪空白字符串和最大长度，并利用这些字符串扩展来修剪UITextField到最大长度:

// In String_Extensions.swift

extension String {

  func trimmedString() -> String {
    var trimmedString = self.stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet(NSCharacterSet.whitespaceAndNewlineCharacterSet())
    let components = trimmedString.componentsSeparatedByCharactersInSet(NSCharacterSet.whitespaceAndNewlineCharacterSet()).filter { count($0) > 0 }
    return " ".join(components)
  }

  func trimmedStringToMaxLength(maxLength: Int) -> String {
    return trimmedString().substringToIndex(advance(startIndex, min(count(self), maxLength))).trimmedString()
  }

}

// In UITextField_Extensions.swift

private var maxLengthDictionary = [UITextField : Int]()
private var textFieldMaxLength = 20

extension UITextField {

  @IBInspectable var maxLength: Int {
    get {
      if let maxLength = maxLengthDictionary[self] {
        return maxLength
      } else {
        return textFieldMaxLength
      }
    }
    set {
      maxLengthDictionary[self] = newValue < textFieldMaxLength + 1 ? newValue : textFieldMaxLength
    }
  }

  func trimAndLimitToMaxLength() {
    text = text.trimmedStringToMaxLength(maxLength)
  }

}

let someTextField = UITextField()
let someString = "   This   is   a   string   that   is longer than allowable for a text field.   "
someTextField.text = someString
someTextField.trimAndLimitToMaxLength()
println(someTextField.text) // Prints "This is a string tha"
let anotherTextField = UITextField()
anotherTextField.maxLength = 5
anotherTextField.text = someString
anotherTextField.trimAndLimitToMaxLength()
println(anotherTextField.text) // Prints "This"

trimAndLimitToMaxLength() could be used in UITextFieldDelegate's textFieldDidEndEditing(_:) so that a user could enter or paste in a longer than acceptable string and then shorten it vs. just cutting off the input at the max length. In doing this, I would also set attributed text styles to indicate any portion of the text that goes beyond the acceptable length (e.g., [NSBackgroundColorAttributeName : UIColor.redColor(), NSForegroundColorAttributeName : UIColor.whiteColor(), NSStrikethroughStyleAttributeName : NSNumber(int: 1)]

我们可以像这样设置文本框的范围。

-(BOOL)textField:(UITextField *)textField shouldChangeCharactersInRange:(NSRange)range  replacementString:(NSString *)string
{
     int setrange = 20;
     return !([textField.text length]>setrange && [string length] > range.length);
}

上面给出的一些答案的问题是，例如，我有一个文本字段，我必须设置输入15个字符的限制，然后它在输入第15个字符后停止。但是他们不允许删除。那就是删除按钮也不管用了。我也面临着同样的问题。提出了解决方案，如下所示。非常适合我

- (BOOL)textField:(UITextField *)textField shouldChangeCharactersInRange:(NSRange)range replacementString:(NSString *)string
{
 if(textField.tag==6)
 {
    if ([textField.text length]<=30)
    {
        return YES;   
    }
    else if([@"" isEqualToString:string])
    {
        textField.text=[textField.text substringToIndex:30 ];
    }

    return NO;
 }
 else
 {
    return YES;
 }
}

我有一个文本框，我将其标签设置为“6” 并且我已经限制了最大字符限制= 30; 在任何情况下都可以正常工作

有通用的解决方案设置最大长度在Swift。 通过IBInspectable，你可以在Xcode属性检查器中添加新的属性。

import UIKit
private var maxLengths = [UITextField: Int]()
extension UITextField {

    @IBInspectable var maxLength: Int {
        get {
            guard let length = maxLengths[self]
            else {
                return Int.max
            }
            return length
        }
        set {
            maxLengths[self] = newValue
            addTarget(
                self,
                action: Selector("limitLength:"),
                forControlEvents: UIControlEvents.EditingChanged
            )
        }
    }

    func limitLength(textField: UITextField) {
        guard let prospectiveText = textField.text
            where prospectiveText.characters.count > maxLength else {
                return
        }
        let selection = selectedTextRange
        text = prospectiveText.substringWithRange(
            Range<String.Index>(prospectiveText.startIndex ..< prospectiveText.startIndex.advancedBy(maxLength))
        )
        selectedTextRange = selection
    }

}

现在你想要多少字符，只要给值就行了

 - (BOOL)textField:(UITextField *)textField shouldChangeCharactersInRange:(NSRange)range   replacementString:(NSString *)string {
     NSUInteger newLength = [textField.text length] + [string length] - range.length;
     return (newLength > 25) ? NO : YES;
  }

使用接口构建器，您可以在任何函数中链接并获得“编辑更改”的事件。 现在你可以检查长度

- (IBAction)onValueChange:(id)sender 
{
    NSString *text = nil;
    int MAX_LENGTH = 20;
    switch ([sender tag] ) 
    {
        case 1: 
        {
            text = myEditField.text;
            if (MAX_LENGTH < [text length]) {
                myEditField.text = [text substringToIndex:MAX_LENGTH];
            }
        }
            break;
        default:
            break;
    }

}