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how to write in append mode for text file


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];

}

Solution

  • 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]];