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07.19.2008 at 11:46AM PDT, ID: 23579335
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Asked by smithdale87 in Apple Programming, Objective-C Programming Language, Cocoa Programming Language

Tags: objective c

I'm having trouble reading a text file when I use it's relative path name instead of the absolute path.

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I'm not sure why this is not working, but it is the most annoying thing ever!
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// does not work
NSString *fileContents = [NSString stringWithContentsOfFile:@"myFile.txt" encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding error:NULL];  
 
 
//works
NSString *fileContents = [NSString stringWithContentsOfFile:@"/Users/myProfile/Desktop/myFile.txt" encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding error:NULL];
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