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Asked: 2026-05-25T17:41:37+00:00

any recommendations for saving four strings into an own file format that is read

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any recommendations for saving four strings into an own file format that is read by the application and can be shared?

In my app, you will be able to enter some text in some boxes and the app shows a view with an background image and those strings. Now, I am already able to save this as a picture, but I actually want to save it to an own file format so that you can save different files that can be modified afterwards as well or even exchanged via email and opened from another iphone with the app.

Now, I wrote the code for accessing the documents folder of the app, as well as saving and deleting. Thing is, i dont know how to store those strings in a file (perhaps in a xml?) and read them easily afterwards from my application.

For the exchanging part, I found that link which would be a nice feature indeed: http://iosdevelopertips.com/cocoa/launching-your-own-application-via-a-custom-url-scheme.html

Parsing xml seems not that difficult (never done it before): http://ipad.about.com/od/iPad-App-Dev/a/How-To-Parse-Xml-Files-In-Xcode-Objective-C.htm

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  1. Editorial Team

    Okay guys I found that very nice method in the NSString documentation:

    –writeToFile:atomically:encoding:error:

    I think I am gonna separate my strings by /n and save them to a .txt. When I am gonna read the file afterwards, i am getting the string, divide it to substrings. That will do it, I guess.

    One last question: Is it possible to replace the content of my file so that I won’t need to create a new file every time i want to change something?

    Thanks!

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