Reputation: 1459
I am a new iOS developer. I want to create an app that will auto-create new *.txt files in the app's folder. I could only find how to open, close, save, write, and read - not create. How can I create new files? Thanks.
Upvotes: 5
Views: 21149
Reputation: 3908
I hope this help's you
-(void)writeToTextFile{
NSArray *paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains
(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);
NSString *documentsDirectory = [paths objectAtIndex:0];
//make a file name to write the data to using the documents directory:
NSString *fileName = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@/filename.txt",
documentsDirectory];
NSString *content = @"This is Demo";
[content writeToFile:fileName
atomically:NO
encoding:NSStringEncodingConversionAllowLossy
error:nil];
}
-(void)ShowContentlist{
NSArray *paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains
(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);
NSString *documentsDirectory = [paths objectAtIndex:0];
NSString *fileName = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@/filename.txt",
documentsDirectory];
NSString *content = [[NSString alloc] initWithContentsOfFile:fileName
usedEncoding:nil
error:nil];
[content release];
}
Upvotes: 5
Reputation: 8576
Use the following code to write/create a .txt file in your app's Documents directory. It should be pretty self-explanatory.
NSError *error;
NSString *stringToWrite = @"1\n2\n3\n4";
NSString *filePath = [[NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES) firstObject] stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"myfile.txt"];
[stringToWrite writeToFile:filePath atomically:YES encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding error:&error];
And to retrieve the text file:
NSString *str = [NSString stringWithContentsOfFile:filePath encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding error:&error];
NSLog(@"%@", str);
Upvotes: 19