File Handling in Objective C

Question

Is there anyway to do Files Handling in Objective-C? I am just trying to do simple read and write and can use 'c' but i am force to use Objective-C classes for that :@. I am looking into NSInputStream, but its going over my head. Is there any tutorial which explains how to use NSInputStream?

Answer 1

I find apple's guides short and to the point. http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/Streams/Articles/ReadingInputStreams.html

Answer 2

If all you need to do is really simple I/O, you can just tell an object to initialize itself from, or write itself to, a filesystem path or URL. This works with several Foundation classes, including NSString, NSData, NSArray, and NSDictionary among others.

Try starting out by looking at the following two NSString methods:

- initWithContentsOfFile:encoding:error:

- writeToFile:atomically:encoding:error: