Read Text File in Document Folder - Iphone SDK

cocoa, documents, ios, iphone, objective-c

Solution

The `NSBundle` class is used for finding things within your applications bundle, but the Documents directory is outside the bundle, so the way you're generating the path won't work. Try this instead:

NSArray *paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory,
                                                     NSUserDomainMask,
                                                     YES);

NSString *fullPath = [[paths lastObject] stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"recentDownload.txt"];

Problem

I have this code below: ``` NSString *fileName = [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] objectForKey:@"recentDownload"]; NSString *fullPath = [NSBundle pathForResource:fileName ofType:@"txt" inDirectory:[NSHomeDirectory() stringByAppendingString:@"/Documents/"]]; NSError *error = nil; [textViewerDownload setText:[NSString stringWithContentsOfFile:fullPath encoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding error:&error]]; ``` `textviewerdownload` is the `textview` displaying the text from the file. The actual file name is stored in an `NSUserDefault` called `recentDownload`. When I build this, I click the `button` which this is under, and my application `crashes`. Is there anything wrong with the syntax or just simple error?

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