Question

If I have a NSString that came back from a web service in the form of a plist structure, how can I initialize a NSMutableArray with this NSString. I want to know if there is a similar way to initWithContentsOfFile for NSString.

My first thought was to save the NSString to a file and then use initWithContentsOfFile; but I am trying to avoid save to file first. It seems like there should be a simpler way.

Answer 1

Untested, should work like this:

NSData *data = [myString dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSMuableArray *array = [NSPropertyListSerialization
     propertyListWithData:data
                  options:NSPropertyListMutableContainers
                   format:NSPropertyListXMLFormat_v1_0
                    error:NULL];