how to write in append mode for text file

Question

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];

}

Answer 1

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];

Answer 2

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]];
}

Answer 3

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]];