Question

I have an MSMutableArray that contains many NSDictionaries. A dictionary is just an NSString with a key “symbol”.

I am writing my array to a plist:

+ (void)writeObjectToPList:(id)myData {  
    NSArray *paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);
    NSString *documentsDirectory = [paths objectAtIndex:0];
    NSString *path = [documentsDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"mobile-watchlist.plist"];
    [myData writeToFile:path atomically:YES];
}  

How can I read this back as an array?

Answer 1

You can read the file back like this —

NSArray *array = [NSArray arrayWithContentsOfFile:path];