Question

I am trying to get an array from a plist as suggested on an answer here but it’s not working. Can someone tell me what I’m missing?

Here is what the plist looks like….another weird thing is that I can’t get this to open in a plain text file?? when I do it looks like garbage…..but it looks fine in the property list editor:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>count</key>
<array>
     <integer>5</integer>
</array>
<key>username</key>
<array>
     <string>johnsmith</string>
</array>
</dict>
</plist>

Here is the code i’m using….. dictionary is a NSMUtableDictionary and accountsArray is an NSMustableArray that are in the .h file.

     NSMutableDictionary *tempDictionary = [[NSMutableDictionary alloc] initWithContentsOfFile:accountsFilePath];

 dictionary = tempDictionary;
 [tempDictionary release];


 NSMutableArray *nameArray = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
 nameArray = [dictionary objectForKey:@"username"];

 accountsArray = nameArray;

 [nameArray release];

Am I missing something? Screwing something up?

Thanks…

Answer 1

I finally got it working like this:

    dictionary = [[NSMutableDictionary alloc] initWithContentsOfFile:accountsFilePath];      


 if (accountsArray == nil){

     accountsArray = [[NSMutableArray alloc]init];
 }

 if (countArray == nil){

     countArray = [[NSMutableArray alloc]init];
 }



 countArray = [dictionary objectForKey:@"count"];
 accountsArray = [dictionary objectForKey:@"username"];