Accessing text file content and character count very slow in iOS

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I am working with a text file in iOS. The file size keeps increasing and reaches to 10 MB of size.The problem is accessing the content is becoming very slow.Is there any other way that I can speed up the process.Also, I want the total character length/count of the text files.Its running in the main thread.

NSString* content = [NSString stringWithContentsOfFile:path  usedEncoding:&encoding  error:NULL];

So something else is appending to this file and you are reading it periodically? — Droppy, May 27 '15 at 09:41
So you are writing log message to a log file and you want to read these messages from within the same process? I think you need to think about the design of your app a bit more. That is terribly inefficient. — Droppy, May 27 '15 at 10:22
Hmm.I thought of the design and its working fine.But only the issue is its slow.Well currently I am trying something.if it works I will post in my answer. — MD Aslam Ansari, May 27 '15 at 11:20

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:14

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There is too many solution for your problem :

1- Reading file with more than 1MB

2- Reading file with more than 1MB

edited May 23 '17 at 12:14

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answered May 27 '15 at 09:48

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Then close as a duplicate. – Droppy May 27 '15 at 09:57
@Aslam any update ? u said u will post your final answer :D looking forward for it – Omarj May 31 '15 at 07:19
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@Omarj, I tried putting my answer but I am not able to answer,its blocking me. – MD Aslam Ansari Jun 01 '15 at 05:49

Accessing text file content and character count very slow in iOS

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