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Posted by James Lambert
James Lambert
Courses Plus Student 14,477 Points

Why won't \n work in a string from a plist?

In swift, why is it that \n won't work when pulling a string from a plist to fill a UITextView?

3 Answers

James Lambert
James Lambert
Courses Plus Student 14,477 Points

I think it's because in the plist the data is Base-64 encoded and not Unicode

Myers Carpenter
Myers Carpenter
6,421 Points
Myers Carpenter
Myers Carpenter
6,421 Points

I don't think I follow your question. Could you give a small code example of your problem?

James Lambert
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James Lambert
Courses Plus Student 14,477 Points
James Lambert
James Lambert
Courses Plus Student 14,477 Points

Sure Thanks,

This creates the path and an instance of my array= var myPath = NSBundle.mainBundle().pathForResource("NameOfMyPlist", ofType: "plist") var myArray = NSArray(contentsOfFile: myPath!)

I then want to fill myTextFieldView with a string from the array= myTextFieldView.text = myArray![1] as String

This works and fills the text field view.

The only problem is that if the string in the array looks like "my first line\nmy second line" it should display: my first line my second line

Instead it displays: my first line\nmy second line