Question

I want to put the content of my html resource file into an NSString object. Is it possible and advisable to do that? How could it be done?

Answer 1

Possible? – yes

Advisable? – unless it is an extremely large file, why not?

How? – There is already a method to do it for you in NSString – stringWithContentsOfFile:encoding:error:.

See the snippet below:

NSError* error = nil;
NSString *path = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource: @"foo" ofType: @"html"];
NSString *res = [NSString stringWithContentsOfFile: path encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding error: &error];