Question

I’m looking for a way to fill an NSArray with NSStrings that are the names of the directories in the apps documents directory.

This is what I have so far:

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

    for (//loop until no more directories)
    {
         NSString *newDir = [documentsDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:path];

         //Code for retrieving directory names
         [directoriesArray addObject:newDir]; 
    }

I’m not sure what the for loop’s conditions need to be and I’m not sure how to retrieve the directories names.

Thanks for the advice in advance.

Answer 1

Try this

NSFileManager *fileManager = [NSFileManager defaultManager];
filesArray = [[fileManager contentsOfDirectoryAtPath:urDocumentsFolderPath error:nil] retain];

for(NSString *file in filesArray) {
//Do something
}

So in your case

NSArray *paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);
NSString *documentsDirectory = [paths objectAtIndex:0];
NSFileManager *fileManager = [NSFileManager defaultManager];
filesArray = [[fileManager contentsOfDirectoryAtPath:documentsDirectory error:nil] retain];
for(NSString *file in filesArray) 
{
  NSString *newDir = [documentsDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:file];
  //Code for retrieving directory names
  [directoriesArray addObject:newDir]; 
}

Hope this helps