Reading a RTF file and parse plaintext

Question

I am doing this to get the content of a file using NSOpenPanel, but I am getting a lot of weird stuff returned from the .rtf file I select.

My panel code:

Answer 1

That "other stuff" is the actual RTF data.

I would recommend using the NSAttributedString initializer NSAttributedString(path:documentAttributes:), which will read in and process the RTF data. Then you can access the plain text by using attributedString.string.

In your case, it would be

if let content = NSAttributedString(path: expandedPath, documentAttributes: nil) {
    // do something with content or content.string
}