Question

I have this data that I’d like to save to plist. MONTH and DAY are the system date integers. I know how to get them.

 MONTH
  DAY
   int, string, int

Example:

 5
  25
   10, text, 50

I have a UITableView in which I must import the data on this way:

If the system month is 3, search the plist for the key 3 and populate the table with only days of the month 3.

What is the best approach for this?

EDIT:

The year is not important. In the table, it should be a list of months, and when pressed it should list all the days associated with the particular month. And every day should have all the data associated to particular day.

I am confused on how to structure the data in the plist.

Answer 1

Looks like this thread has some good information on saving your NSDictionary as a plist:

Save NSDictionary to plist

As for displaying your results in the table view, I’m a little confused as to how you are organizing your NSDictionary. In general, you should do something like this:

NSArray *arrayDataForMonthZero = [[NSArray alloc] initWithObjects:@"Your",@"Objects",@"For",@"Section",@"Zero"];
NSArray *arrayDataForMonthOne = [[NSArray alloc] initWithObjects:@"Your",@"Objects",@"For",@"Section",@"One"];
...
NSArray *arrayDataForMonthEleven = [[NSArray alloc] initWithObjects:@"Your",@"Objects",@"For",@"Section",@"Eleven"];

NSDictionary *tableData = [[NSDictionary alloc] initWithObjectsAndKeys:arrayDataForMonthZero,@"0",arrayDataForMonthOne,@"1",...,arrayDataForMonthEleven,@"11"];

Then, you create an NSArray pointer to the data set you want to use. So, if you want to display the third section, just do:

NSArray *tableDataPtr = [tableData objectAtIndex:@"3"];

This will select all the data you just created associated with the third month. Use this object when providing commands to your table view delegate and data source.