Question

I would like to assign a variable instead of the string in my following code.
First i am creating an array from comma separated list of directories. Next for each directory in the array, i want to create them, if they doesn’t exist.

How do i assign the directory from the array rather than: @”templates/standard1/css”
I have tried replacing it with s, but that didn’t work out. I can NSlog the s, but it doesn’t seem to create the directories.

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

NSString *theString = @"templates, templates/standard1, templates/standard1/css, themes, themes/plain, themes/plain/384";
NSArray *items = [theString componentsSeparatedByString:@","];
for (NSString *s in items) {
    NSString *dataPath = [documentsDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"templates/standard1/css"];
    if (![[NSFileManager defaultManager] fileExistsAtPath:dataPath]) {
        // Directory does not exist so create it
        [[NSFileManager defaultManager] createDirectoryAtPath:dataPath withIntermediateDirectories:YES attributes:nil error:nil];
    }

}

Any help would be appreciated 🙂

Answer 1

I think the spaces are bothering your directories. You have each directory separated by “, ” but are searching for “,” (without a space). You can either take the spaces out of your theString, or use “, ” as your separator, for using the string!!!

So either change

NSString *theString = @"templates, templates/standard1, templates/standard1/css, themes, themes/plain, themes/plain/384";

to this

NSString *theString = @"templates,templates/standard1,templates/standard1/css,themes,themes/plain,themes/plain/384";

Or Change this:

NSArray *items = [theString componentsSeparatedByString:@","];

to this:

NSArray *items = [theString componentsSeparatedByString:@", "];

BUT NOT BOTH!!!