From eaa26645c5b79635f500c355c8b0dff507d7f983 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mark Rickert <mjar81@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2019 14:48:13 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Add ability to use file paths relative to your user directory

---
 MTMR/ItemsParsing.swift | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/MTMR/ItemsParsing.swift b/MTMR/ItemsParsing.swift
index 5ef057e..6061d59 100644
--- a/MTMR/ItemsParsing.swift
+++ b/MTMR/ItemsParsing.swift
@@ -724,15 +724,16 @@ extension String {
     }
 
     var fileData: Data? {
-        return try? Data(contentsOf: URL(fileURLWithPath: self))
+        return try? Data(contentsOf: URL(fileURLWithPath: (self as NSString).expandingTildeInPath))
     }
 
     var fileString: String? {
         var encoding: String.Encoding = .utf8
-        return try? String(contentsOfFile: self, usedEncoding: &encoding)
+        return try? String(contentsOf: URL(fileURLWithPath: (self as NSString).expandingTildeInPath), usedEncoding: &encoding)
+    }
 
     var fileURL: URL {
-        return URL(fileURLWithPath: self)
+        return URL(fileURLWithPath: (self as NSString).expandingTildeInPath)
     }
 
     var appleScript: NSAppleScript? {