Comments on: Reading a plist into an NSArray

By: Ajay

Ajay — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:45:51 +0000

So, did you got any feasible solution to the above solution ?Since i am also facing the same issue. Though i am looking to have it by .plist file.

By: jessy

jessy — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 21:21:13 +0000

What you are doing is right. You have to write the array to file path in order to read it. If you don’t write it to plist file path that means there are no entries (list of array) in the plist. I hope It’ll help u.

By: phynet

phynet — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 20:17:13 +0000

I’m having troubles with the code, the array is always empty. I’ve checked the location where it stores the plist and it’s ok:

/Users/UserName/Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator/4.3/Applications/A9BCF093-ABC1-4AC0-8E75-4316739E5B45/ApplicationName.app/DrinkArray.plist

I’ve tried to write items into the plist trough code:

- (void)writePlist
{
NSMutableArray *anArray = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
[anArray addObject:@"Milmers"];
[anArray addObject:@"Xcode"];
NSString *path = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@”DrinkArray” ofType:@”plist”];

// [anArray writeToFile:[self dataFilePath] atomically:YES];
[anArray writeToFile:path atomically:YES];

}

and that’s how it works, but if I read it without writing, it doesn’t, the array is always empty. What I’m doing wrong?

By: Mohammed

Mohammed — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 05:05:50 +0000

Thanks a lot for the tutorial!

I was facing problem managing my plist when the root was a dictionary which doesn’t show inside Xcode. So I changed it in the property list editor then imported it to Xcode again.

Thanks again.
Mohammed

By: jessy

jessy — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 22:43:41 +0000

Hi,

Can anyone help me how to save the user selected array using checkmarks in a table view ? I want to display the user selected data in another view by saying the list of items you have selected are apple,strawberry,banana.
From an array of let’s say 12 fruits. I am new to this ios programming, so please help me.

By: Janene

Janene — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 19:27:41 +0000

The code runs but the array is empty. I can’t tell if the file is not found or some other error occurs. Ideas welcome. Janene

ps – I thought I’d replied already… sorry if there are 2 replies!

By: John Muchow

John Muchow — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 14:12:28 +0000

In Xcode 4, the default location of the application’s plist file nows appears to be the Supporting Files folder. Is there an issue with the build not working?

By: Janene

Janene — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 18:07:24 +0000

How does one get the plist file into the app bundle/resources in XCode 4? There is no Resources group in my project – the generated plist is just in “Supporting Files”.

By: narender

narender — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 09:26:21 +0000

it’s very nice to understand about the plist reading and writing
give more assignments about the plist data appending and deleting the data from the plist

By: Sajan

Sajan — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 11:25:37 +0000

haiiiiiiiiiiii, it is very simple.