Question

Reading this article for instance, writing an NSDictionary to a plist looks pretty easy. Now, if I just want to modify one single row of an existing plist: Is there any way to update the row without re-writing the whole file?

Like “when updating a row in a database table, I don’t have to rewrite the whole table”?

Thanks,
J.

Answer 1

First : plist is for very trivial data, so there should not be the question of optimisation of reading and writing it. As if you need to optimise that, that means you need to change your application design.

Second : plist is basically an xml file, so of course you can use xml parsers.