NSArray to plist to TableView

Question

Thanks in advance. I create an array with 6 parts, each an NSString in one of my views. Each string is taken from a UITextField. I want to make a save button that saves the Array into a plist. I then want a TableView to display a table sorted by the first object in the array, the first string.

I've created a blank plist with the name I want and named the plist the same thing as the array. Frankly, I'm lost after that. I don't understand if what I'm making is a dictionary in the plist or an array, and how to do it.

Once the table is made, I think I can handle pushing new views from the selected row.

Anything would help. Thanks and stack overflow has been really helpful.

Thanks again.

Answer 1

If you are really set on using files, to this to write an array to your .plist:

NSMutableDictionary *dictionary = [[NSMutableDictionary alloc] init];
[dictionary setObject:theArray forKey:yourKey];
[dictionary writeToFile:@"/somepath/blah.plist" atomically:YES];
[dictionary release];

This will set the root of your .plist file to be a NSDictionary. If you want it to be an NSMutableArray just change the class of the *dictionary.

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Answer 2

To store data it's better to use NSUserDefaults and not files because reading and writing it it's much easier. There is a primer at: Primer link