best way to get text from a plain .txt file into a Scroll View

Question

Can someone please help me out with this I'm actually going nuts!

What is the best way to get text from a plain .txt file into a Scroll View, thats all I need just text.

I've tried so many different solutions but can't get any of them working I was hoping someone could give me a fresh overview.

Answer 1

Is the file a resource in your application or are you loading it from a network resource? If embedded, you can load it into an NSString object and then set the text property of the UITextView with that. Something like:

UITextView *myTextView = [[UITextView alloc] init];
NSString *pathToFile = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"yourTextFile" ofType:@"txt"];  
NSString *theText = [NSString stringWithContentsOfFile:pathToFile encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding error:nil];
myTextView.text = theText;