Question

I’m trying to import a text file into my iPad application using the method initWithContentsOfFile:encoding:error:, but when I try to get the filepath to my text file, I am running into some troubles. It seems that my text file is not being found. The following call returns nil (the text file is called legal.txt)

NSString *filePath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"legal" 
                                                     ofType:@"txt"];

Obviously, after this returns nil, my call…

NSString *fileContents = [[NSString alloc] initWithContentsOfFile:filePath
                                                         encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding
                                                            error:@"error"];

also returns nil.

I am quite new at this so I might be doing something obviously incorrect, but looked all over SO and elsewhere and couldn’t find anyone with the same problem as me.

Answer 1

Call pathForResource:ofType:inDirectory:
by passing the directory as well