Question

Is there a program out there that can take a text list like this:

cat, dog, bird

and output this:

@"cat", @"dog", @"bird"

I’ve got a long list that I’d like converted for an NSDictionary.

Answer 1

Why not do it with iOS? Read the file into a string, separate it into components, iterate over the components and write them in the format you want.

Some methods you will find useful:

NSString:
+ (id)stringWithContentsOfFile:(NSString *)path encoding:(NSStringEncoding)enc error:(NSError **)error

NSArray:
- (NSArray *)componentsSeparatedByString:(NSString *)separator

NSString:
+ (id)stringWithFormat:(NSString *)format, ...

Make your output words with something like:

NSString *outputWord = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"@\"%@\"", word];

I don’t know how “long” your list is but I have done this with the entire scrabble dictionary where the words were separated by a \n.