File IO in Swift 2

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Created Jun ’15

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Where can I find documentation on doing file IO in Swift 2? I have checked the language reference, but I don't see anything there. Right now I just want to read a file into a string, but I am interested in other file IO as well.

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James

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ahltorp OP

Jun ’15

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There is no file API native to Swift, but you can use the Cocoa APIs:

if let data = NSData(contentsOfFile: "/etc/resolv.conf") {
    let string = NSString(data: data, encoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding)
}

or you can use the Unix APIs (open, read, ...), but then you have to do manual memory management.

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