How to get the contents of a text file (stored locally in the documents directory) into an NSString?

Question

How to retrieve the contents of a TEXT FILE stored locally in the documents directory?

Answer 1

Assuming the text is UTF-8 encoded:

NSData *textFileData = [NSData dataWithContentsOfFile:pathToTextFile];
NSString *textFileString = [NSString stringWithUTF8String:[textFileData bytes]];

Answer 2

You can also use this NSString class method (assuming the text is UTF-8):

NSString *content = [NSString stringWithContentsOfFile:pathToTextFile encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding error:&error];

error should be a pointer to an NSError object.