Swift Text File To Array of Strings

Question

I was wondering what the simplest and cleanest to read a text file into an array of strings is in swift.

Text file:

line 1
line 2
line 3 
line 4
         


        

Answer 1

First you must read the file:

let text = String(contentsOfFile: someFile, encoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding, error: nil)

Then you separate it by line using the componentsSeparatedByString method:

let lines : [String] = text.componentsSeparatedByString("\n")