saving text to a file inside app

Question

Right, I've seen solutions like this before, but nine that seem to do the trick. I want to save text from a Text Field into a file in Supporting Files.

Preferably, I want it to be an HTML file, and I want it there because I want to open it again in a Web View.

I know how to do the loading, its just the saving.

The question: How do I save text from a Text Field into a file inside the Supporting Files directory?

this has nothing to do with xcode. Xcode is an IDE ONLY – Daij-Djan May 11 '13 at 14:19 — Daij-Djan, May 11 '13 at 14:19

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 11 '13 at 14:13

Try something like this:

- (void)writeStringToFile:(NSString*)aString {

    // Build the path, and create if needed.
    NSString *theString = @"The text to write";
    NSString* filePath = [NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES) objectAtIndex:0];
    NSString* fileAtPath = [filePath stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"data.txt"];

    if (![[NSFileManager defaultManager] fileExistsAtPath:fileAtPath]) {
        [[NSFileManager defaultManager] createFileAtPath:fileAtPath contents:nil attributes:nil];
    }
    [[theString dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding] writeToFile:fileAtPath atomically:NO];
}

For some reason, neither ways work. Nothing happens; no file is created / written to (even if made previously). Am I missing something? — user2333270, May 11 '13 at 17:04

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 11 '13 at 14:14

Problem Solved (HTML) !!!

try this code,

NSString *documentDirectory = [NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory,NSUserDomainMask, YES) objectAtIndex:0];
NSString *fileName = [documentDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"myfile.html"];

NSString *textFromTextField = textField.text;
NSString *finalText = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"<html><body>%@</body><html>",textFromTextField];

[finalText writeToFile:@"" atomically:YES encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding error:NULL];

saving text to a file inside app

2 Answers2

Problem Solved (HTML) !!!