Whats wrong with my code.. I want it to read a text file like
Item1
Item2
Item3
Item4
Item5
and parse it into an array so each line is a separate object in thus array.
When you check the console it prints (null)
-(void)parseIntoArray{ //parse the files into seprate arrays.
allPools = [[NSMutableArray alloc] initWithContentsOfFile:@"ALL_POOLS_NAMES"];
NSLog(@"%@",allPools);
}
I put the txt file in my project and copied it to destination.
Firstly, can you verify that the file exists where you are looking and is readable? Use
[[NSFileManager defaultManager] isReadableFileAtPath:aPath];
Secondly, what is in your file. The behaviour of initWithContentsOfFile:
The array representation in the file identified by aPath must contain only property list objects (NSString, NSData, NSArray, or NSDictionary objects).
Is your file a valid plist xml file?
InResponse
You cannot use the NSArray constructor initWithContentsOfFile: to parse a regular text file.
Instead you can read the file content into memory and parse it yourself into an array. For your example you could use
//pull the content from the file into memory
NSData* data = [NSData dataWithContentsOfFile:aPath];
//convert the bytes from the file into a string
NSString* string = [[[NSString alloc] initWithBytes:[data bytes]
length:[data length]
encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding] autorelease];
//split the string around newline characters to create an array
NSString* delimiter = @"\n";
NSArray* items = [string componentsSeparatedByString:delimiter];
encoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding]]; it says its missing a : before the ] are you missing a argument?
"[", " {", " \"name\": \"Afghanistan\",", " \"dial_code\": \"+93\",", " \"code\": \"AF\"", " },",