RE: [Newbie] writing plain text to a file
RE: [Newbie] writing plain text to a file
- Subject: RE: [Newbie] writing plain text to a file
- From: "Mondragon, Ian" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 17:00:51 -0600
oops...
- (FILE *)openFile:(NSString *)filename mode:(NSString *)mode
{
FILE *fp;
// man fopen() for modes - add some error checking, too!
if (NULL == (fp = fopen([filename cString]), [mode cString])))
{
return fp;
}
return NULL;
}
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-----Original Message-----
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From: Mondragon, Ian
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Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 4:59 PM
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To: 'Chris Garaffa'; email@hidden
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Subject: RE: [Newbie] writing plain text to a file
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chris,
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here's a cocoa-ized quickie for you, then <grin>.
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use fprintf(fp, ...) to print to the file, and use [[obj description]
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cString] to get char* representations of objects (cuz the %@ format string
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used in NSLog() just calls an object's -description method...which you
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should always implement in your own objects <wink>).
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- ian
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--- snip ---
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- (FILE *)openFile:(NSString *)filename mode:(NSString *)mode
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{
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FILE *fp;
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// man fopen() for modes - add some error checking, too!
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if (NULL == (fp = fopen([filename cString]), [mode cString])))
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{
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return fp;
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}
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}
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- (void)closeFile:(FILE *)fp
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{
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if (NULL != fp)
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{
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fclose(fp);
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}
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}
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--- snip ---
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-----Original Message-----
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From: Chris Garaffa [SMTP:email@hidden]
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Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 4:30 PM
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To: email@hidden
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Subject: Re: [Newbie] writing plain text to a file
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Ian -
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On Friday, February 28, 2003, at 04:46 PM, Mondragon, Ian wrote:
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> why not just use standard C FILE* pointers? man fopen(), man
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fclose()?
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Well, one, because I don't know C ;) (I come from a C++ background),
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and two, I'm really trying to learn Cocoa as well as I can.
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I'm going to look into this method, though, because this program has
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to
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be ready to go in a week or so.
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--
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Chris Garaffa
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email@hidden
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http://moondrop.heli0s.net/
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> - ian
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>> -----Original Message-----
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>> From: Chris Garaffa [SMTP:email@hidden]
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>> Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 3:28 PM
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>> To: email@hidden
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>> Subject: [Newbie] writing plain text to a file
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>>
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>> Hi all,
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>>
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>> I've been programming Cocoa for a couple months now, but getting
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>> really
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>> into it the last 2 or 3 weeks. I've got this program which
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generates a
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>> random number in a specified interval, and writes that number,
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and the
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>> next 100 or so numbers above it. It needs to write all these
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numbers
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>> to
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>> a file, each on its own line. What I do now is create an
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>> NSMutableArray
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>> to hold all the numbers, and then [numArray writeToFile:
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>> numFileLocation atomically:YES]. This works... it creates the
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file and
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>> the data is in there, but I (and my users!) would rather have
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just a
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>> plain text file with one number on each line instead of this XML
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file.
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>> I did some research and found a lot of stuff about NSFileHandle,
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>> NSFileManager and NSData but I couldn't figure out the best way
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to do
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>> this. Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks!
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>>
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>> --
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>> Chris Garaffa
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>> email@hidden
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>> http://moondrop.heli0s.net/
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