[djohnson]

Ok I have another question that I cannot find an answer to. Hopefully it will be as easy as the last one. Anyways, in the program I am writing, I can run it in Project Builder, but when I try to run it outside of Project Builder, it always crashes... Maybe I have a setting set wrong or something but it is very frustrating. Anyone have an answer? Thanks!

[djohnson]

Well.. I fired up gdb and got the followin error:

2003-11-03 23:44:44.134 Program[4632] An uncaught exception was raised
2003-11-03 23:44:44.134 Program[4632] *** -[NSCFDictionary setObject:forKey:]: attempt to insert nil value
2003-11-03 23:44:44.135 Program[4632] *** Uncaught exception: <NSInvalidArgumentException> *** -[NSCFDictionary setObject:forKey:]: attempt to insert nil value

Know I know I am trying to insert a nil value somewhere... So, time to find it! If you have a suggestion, please let me know!

[Catfish_Man]

It *sounds* like the type of error you get when an object is being prematurely released. Try doing some research on NSZombie, I've found it to be very helpful for debugging memory problems.

[djohnson]

Ok, I found my error. However, now my program refuses to read a text file unless I run it in Project Builder... I call the file to open via C and scan through till I find what I need. Is there an easy way to do this in Objective-C?

[Ibson]

If this is what you're looking for:

Code:
NSString *fileContents = [NSString stringWithContentsOfFile:@"/ThePath/To/TheFile.txt"];

And then you could you NSScanner (or even simple NSString and NSArray methods), but if performance is important then maybe you could stick to C.

[djohnson]

Yeah i rewrote everything last night in Cocoa... It runs faster with less code now! Thanks!