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Josh Milbrandt
Josh Milbrandt
6,209 Points
Posted by Josh Milbrandt
Josh Milbrandt
6,209 Points

having a hard time reading a text file in swift

I have a .txt file, was an rtf file that I renamed in text editor (not sure if that matters?) the entire text file is just numbers

34856 32345 35567 23344

when I drag and drop the file location that comes up in swift is: /Users/jdmpurple/Desktop/TypeID.txt

can someone tell me the code that will allow me to read all of the numbers into an Array? (there are about 20,000 numbers)

I tried adapting this code that was posted a week ago on the website:

let file = "file.txt" if let dirs : [String] = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSSearchPathDirectory.DocumentDirectory, NSSearchPathDomainMask.AllDomainsMask, true) as? [String] { let dir = dirs[0] //documents directory let path = dir.stringByAppendingPathComponent(file); let text = "some text"

                //writing
                text.writeToFile(path, atomically: false, encoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding, error: nil);

                //reading
                let text2 = String(contentsOfFile: path, encoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding, error: nil)
                println(text2!)

}

but I wasn't able to get it to work by changing the path of file.txt, it comes up with nil

I am trying to do this in a playground i'd love to get something I copy paste that will work so that I can play around with it and learn how to expand on it, i'm kind of embarrassed I just can't get it to work