Read one line at a time from txt?

[JacobAppleGeek]

Hi!

First post! I have a UITextView that needs to show one line at a time of a txt file loaded from a server. I know how to load the file on the server to the UITextView's text but I don't know how to get it to display one line at a time.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

[rickrets]

NSArray *listItems = [locationString componentsSeparatedByString:@","];

Or change the "," in whatever you put between every line

[Duncan C]

Originally Posted by JacobAppleGeek

Hi!

First post! I have a UITextView that needs to show one line at a time of a txt file loaded from a server. I know how to load the file on the server to the UITextView's text but I don't know how to get it to display one line at a time.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

The other poster had the right idea.

Load all the contents of your sever file into an NSString. Let's call it fileText.

Then use a line like:

NSArray* lines = [fileText componentsSeparatedByString: @"\n"];

That will give you an array, lines, where each element contains a separate line of text ("\n" is the escaped form of a newline).

Then you can loop through the resulting array, adding one line at a time to your text view, using code something like this (assuming "index" is the line number of the text you want to put into your text view) :

NSString* textLine = [lines objectAtIndex: index];
myTextView.text = textLine;

[JacobAppleGeek]

Thanks for the quick reply. So I have this code now.

- (IBAction)loadText:(id)sender {
	
	NSURL *mainURL = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://192.168.1.102/text.txt"];
	NSString *mainString = [NSString stringWithContentsOfURL:mainURL];
	mainTextView.text = mainString;
	
}

How would I integrate your code into this?

Thanks again.

[johnhmeyer123]

Originally Posted by JacobAppleGeek

Thanks for the quick reply. So I have this code now.

- (IBAction)loadText:(id)sender {
	
	NSURL *mainURL = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://192.168.1.102/text.txt"];
	NSString *mainString = [NSString stringWithContentsOfURL:mainURL];
	mainTextView.text = mainString;
	
}

How would I integrate your code into this?

Thanks again.

Hey, what is the final code you ended up using for this to work?

[JacobAppleGeek]

Sorry, I never finished this project. :/