My application navigation based. UItextView for notes UIViewController. I am writing data for text to file. Now i need to write in append mode , the below code i am trying but every time is writing to two time with same text data, and not appending if next text data to file.
- (void)saveText:(id)sender
{
[self.textview resignFirstResponder];
NSArray *documentPaths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);
NSString *documentsDirectory = [documentPaths objectAtIndex:0];
NSString *documentTXTPath = [documentsDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"Notes.txt"];
NSString *savedString = textview.text;
[savedString writeToFile:documentTXTPath atomically:YES];
NSFileHandle *myHandle = [NSFileHandle fileHandleForUpdatingAtPath:documentTXTPath ];
[myHandle seekToEndOfFile];
[myHandle writeData: [savedString dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
[myHandle closeFile];
}
Remove the following line of code
[savedString writeToFile:documentTXTPath atomically:YES];
And remaining code are all fine. Anyway check my code also,
NSArray *paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory,NSUserDomainMask, YES);
NSString *documentsDirectory = [paths objectAtIndex:0];
NSString *documentTXTPath = [documentsDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"Notes.txt"];
NSString *savedString = textview.text;
NSFileHandle *myHandle = [NSFileHandle fileHandleForWritingAtPath:documentTXTPath];
[myHandle seekToEndOfFile];
[myHandle writeData:[savedString dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
Try this it works great
NSArray *paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory,NSUserDomainMask, YES);
NSString *documentsDirectory = [paths objectAtIndex:0];
NSString *documentTXTPath = [documentsDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"Notes.txt"];
NSString *savedString = textview.text;
If file Does not exist create it and write to file or else its already created append to end of the file
NSFileManager *fileManager = [NSFileManager defaultManager];
if(![fileManager fileExistsAtPath:documentTXTPath])
{
[savedString writeToFile:documentTXTPath atomically:YES];
}
else
{
NSFileHandle *myHandle = [NSFileHandle fileHandleForWritingAtPath:documentTXTPath];
[myHandle seekToEndOfFile];
[myHandle writeData:[savedString dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
}
You can also do
NSArray *paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory,NSUserDomainMask, YES);
NSString *documentsDirectory = [paths objectAtIndex:0];
NSString *documentTXTPath = [documentsDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"Notes.text"];
NSString *content = [NSString stringWithContentsOfFile:documentTXTPath encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding error:nil];
content = [content stringByAppendingString:data];
And again write contents to particular file path
[content writeToFile:documentTXTPath atomically:YES encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding error:nil];