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Saving a NSMutableArray into a txt-file / Loading txt-file back into NSMutableArray

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I had a look around, trying to find a straightforward method for first saving a MutableArray (which will开发者_Go百科 contain different text arrays from UITextViews with returns etc.) into a txt-file

I had a look around, trying to find a straightforward method for first saving a MutableArray (which will开发者_Go百科 contain different text arrays from UITextViews with returns etc.) into a txt-file and then loading the txt-file back into my MutableArray.

I didn't manage to come up with the reverse method (loading the text-file) and was wondering how I should go about this. I'm sure txt files and mutable arrays are not really compatible, especially if I want the MutableArray to hold various text strings from UITextViews.

Is there a way to mark the beginning of one section in a mutable array and the beginning of the next in a txt file? The aim would be to be able to edit the txt file both in the program and in a simple text editor without messing up the structure of the mutable array.

Can I use a certain special character (not \n obviously) in my text file so as to separate different objects?

Here is what I've come up with so far. Sorry, I'm a beginner and it's very basic. The first problem is that I get the error message 'NSMutableArray' may not respond to '-writeToFile:atomically:encoding:error:'. Next, I have no idea how to load the txt back into my Array. Finally, I'd like to come up with a way to separate the arrays in the txt so that it remains editable, but that would be the absolute icing. Perhaps a solution would be to save each Object in an Array in a separate txt file and then load each txt into the array?

// GENERATE ARRAY

NoteBook = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];

for (int temp = 0; temp < 3; temp++) {
    [NoteBook insertObject:@"Title\n\n Line1\nLine2..." atIndex:temp];
}

// SAVING MY MUTABLE ARRAY

NSArray *paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES); 
NSString *documentsDirectory = [paths objectAtIndex:0]; // Get documents directory

NSError *error;
BOOL succeed = [NoteBook writeToFile:[documentsDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"myfile.txt"]
                          atomically:YES encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding error:&error];
if (!succeed){
    // Handle error here
}



// LOADING TEXTFILE AND PUT IT INTO A MUTABLE ARRAY
// NO IDEA... how to do this


Convert your arrays into strings, and vice versa, using, e.g.,

NSString* arrayText = [NoteBook componentsJoinedByString: @"<your-favourite-separator-string>"];

the write to file using [arrayText writeToFile...]

After reading a string back from a file, use

Notebook = [arrayText componentsSeparatedByString: @"<your-favourite-separator-string>"];

Lastly, don't do this. Save your array directly to a property list (read up on those) or JSON or some other structured data format.


Why not just turn the mutable array into JSON and write that string to a file? The inverse is to read the string from file and turn back into an array using the JSON parser. json-framework is very easy to use.

A benefit would be that you could create or modify your array by editing text files as long as you write valid JSON.


  1. make NSMutableArray to NSArray .because NSMutableArray does not have writeToFile .
  2. retriev array from file

    NSArray *theCatalogInfo=nil;
    NSString *theCatalogFilePath = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@/Documents/",NSHomeDirectory()];
    theCatalogFilePath = [theCatalogFilePath stringByAppendingString:kCatalogCachePath];
    if(nil!=theCatalogFilePath)
    {
        theCatalogInfo=[[NSArray alloc]initWithContentsOfFile:theCatalogFilePath];
    }
    
  3. Save array To file

    NSString *theCatalogFilePath = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@/Documents/",NSHomeDirectory()];
    theCatalogFilePath = [theCatalogFilePath stringByAppendingString:kCatalogCachePath];
    
    [**YourArray** writeToFile:theCatalogFilePath atomically:YES];
    


Have a look at following three methods to create a text file, write to it and read the data from it. The key is to store the different objects separated by space. And you should get it very simple.

-(void)createFile
{
    NSArray *paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains
    (NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);
    NSString *documentsDirectory = [paths objectAtIndex:0];
    NSString *filePath = [documentsDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"Sample.txt"]; 

    NSFileManager * file_manager = [NSFileManager defaultManager];

    if(![file_manager fileExistsAtPath:filePath])
    {
        [file_manager createFileAtPath:filePath contents:nil attributes:nil];

        NSString *content = @"NULL NULL NULL";
        [content writeToFile:filePath 
                  atomically:NO 
                    encoding:NSStringEncodingConversionAllowLossy 
                       error:nil];
    }

}

-(void)writeToFile
{
    NSArray *paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains
    (NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);
    NSString *documentsDirectory = [paths objectAtIndex:0];
    NSString *filePath = [documentsDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"Sample.txt"]; 

    NSString *content = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@ %@ %@", obj1, obj2, obj3];

    [content writeToFile:filePath 
                atomically:NO 
                encoding:NSStringEncodingConversionAllowLossy 
                error:nil];
}

-(void)readFromFile
{
    objects = [[NSArray alloc] init];
    NSArray *paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains
    (NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);
    NSString *documentsDirectory = [paths objectAtIndex:0];
    NSString *filePath = [documentsDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"Sample.txt"]; 
    if (filePath) {  
        NSString *myText = [NSString stringWithContentsOfFile:filePath encoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding error:nil];  
        if (myText) { 
            objects = [myText componentsSeparatedByString:@" "];
        }
    }

}


if your nsarray contains nsdictionary, nsarray, nsstring, nsnumber, nsdata or nsdate objects (no custom objects, int's, etc) you can simply write the contents of your mutable array to a plist file.

this will maintain the data structure you have and you can simply read that data right into an array. How I do it in a couple of my data classes is

NSArray *tempArray = [NSArray arrayWithContentsOfFile:[Utils getFileLocation]];
if (tempArray == nil) {
    yourArray = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
} else {
    yourArray = [[NSArray deepMutableCopy:tempArray] retain];
}
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