ok so this is how I did it … I just used the fact that ObjC is a superset of C
char personName[256];
char imgFilename[512];
int personNumber;
NSArray *array = [outputString componentsSeparatedByString:@"\n"];
int lines = [array count];
FILE *file = fopen([filePath UTF8String],"r");
for (int i = 0; i<lines; i++) {
fscanf(file,"%d %s %s",&personNumber, personName, imgFilename);
NSLog(@"From Fscanf %d %s %s",personNumber,personName,imgFilename);
}
fclose(file);
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