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

Swift 4:

do {
    let contents = try String(contentsOfFile: file, encoding: String.Encoding.utf8)
    let lines : [String] = contents.components(separatedBy: "\n")    
} catch let error as NSError {
    print(error.localizedDescription)
}