How do i read information from a .txt file into an NSMutable array in Xcode (first line contains string, second integer, third another string, etc)

Question

I need help reading in a .txt file into a NSMutableArray in Xcode. I want to read in a large file containing many different strings and integers in a specific order, then I want to create a new person object with the information read in and add each object to an array of person objects.

So if this was my text file:

Richard
Smith
richardsmitha@gmail.com
18
www.richardsmith.com
Steve
Jobs
stevejobs@apple.com
12
www.stevejobs.com

I want a method to assign the following:

firstName = Richard
lastName = Smith
email = richardsmith@gmail.com
age = 18
website = www.richardsmith@gmail.com

Then is should create the object with those values.

PersonObject *person = [[PersonObject alloc] init];
temp = [PersonObject createPerson:firstName:lastName:email:age:website];

NSMutableArray *people = [[NSMutableArray alloc] initWithObjects:PersonObject];
[people addObject:temp];

Then it should repeat for however many people there are in the .txt file.

Answer 1

here is how you would read the file

NSString* path = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"filename" 
                                                 ofType:@"txt"];
NSString* content = [NSString stringWithContentsOfFile:path
                                              encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding
                                                 error:NULL];

parsing stuff out would be like

NSString * emailAddress = [content substringToIndex:[content rangeOfString:@".com"].location]

emailAddress = [content substringFromIndex:[content rangeOfString:@" "].location]

after your last update you might want to look for \\n instead of " ". however you can also just nslog out the content to see exactly what your delimiters look like