I managed to solve it. Apparently, I was using wrong regular expression. I just needed to check for "\n". Thanks though.
On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Farhan Tariq <[email protected]> wrote: > MaxLines won't work. Like I said, I need to count number of line breaks > (equal to "\n", return, newlines etc). MaxLines just returns the number > of lines a piece of text takes! I could have a long sentence that would > take up 5 lines, but no line break, and maxLines would return me 5, but > desired number would be 1. Hope that clears my point. > > > On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 9:46 AM, TreKing <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 10:57 PM, Farhan Tariq <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Any suggestion/help on how to limit editText to 4 new lines? >> >> >> >> http://developer.android.com/reference/android/R.styleable.html#TextView_maxLines >> >> >>> I need it urgently, >>> >> >> Come on now. >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> TreKing <http://sites.google.com/site/rezmobileapps/treking> - Chicago >> transit tracking app for Android-powered devices >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Android Developers" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
