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

Updated for Swift 5:

The const path contains the file path.

do {
    let path: String = "file.txt"
    let file = try String(contentsOfFile: path)
    let text: [String] = file.components(separatedBy: "\n")
} catch let error {
    Swift.print("Fatal Error: \(error.localizedDescription)")
}

If you want to print what's inside of file.txt line by line:

for line in text {
    Swift.print(line)
}