I have already completed this project over a year ago with no problem. But I kind of fell off of my Swift education since then, and have decided to try to complete the 100 days again to refresh my memory.

I am currenty working on project 5, and can't figure out how to make this function work

func startGame() {
        if let startWordsURL = Bundle.main.url(forResource: "start", withExtension: "txt") {
            if let startWords = try? String(contentsOf: startWordsURL) {
                let allWords = startWords.components(separatedBy: "\n")
                rootWord = allWords.randomElement() ?? "Silkworm"
                return
            }
        }
        fatalError("Could not load start.txt from bundle.")
        }
    }

Has something changed with the way that Xcode adds assets to a project? Or with the way that we are supposed to use Bundle to retrieve them?

When I look at my old project from when I completed it before, the "start.txt" file is located directly inside of the "WordScramble" project folder. But in my new attempt at the project the "start.txt" file is located in "WordScramble/Assets.xcassets/start.dataset/start.txt"

Both times I just dragged the start.txt file into the assets area of my project in xcode as far as I can remember. So it seems like something has changed.

I realized that I should have just been dragging the file into the project navigator and not into the assets section. That is what was causing my problem.