Re: NSMutableString -initWithFormat appends to existing text

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

Mick Bert wrote:
> What do you mean by "write the stream directly"?

you dump the whole string directly to a path. Easy and fast!

> > Otherwise indeed, work with NSFileHandle
> >
> > https://www.gnu.org/software/gnustep/resources/documentation/Developer/Base/Reference/NSFileHandle.html
> How about reading per-line?
> Have I to read a chunk of file, and look by myself for the line
> terminator? Aren't there something like the std::getline() of c++?

As far as I know, no. you can read per character, per bytes, by sized 
chunks. But not per dat. You could write an extension yourself if needed.

However, a very quick way is to slurp the whole file in a string and 
split in an NSArray with -componentsSeparatedByString:
I have used that with files of GBytes, provided your system has memory.

My suggestion is to try to use that and start writing your program and 
then optimize later, if you don't know already that you need to work on 
extremely big files that you can handle.

Riccardo