another fun (and probably really simple) question for you, that I have half worked out and now run into a dead end...
I need to build an indexed table using data from a plist which looks something like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Categories</key>
<array>
<dict>
<key>CategoryName</key>
<string>Test Category</string>
<key>CategoryID</key>
<integer>10</integer>
<key>Sections</key>
<dict>
<key>A</key>
<array>
<string>A Jones</string>
<string>A King</string>
</array>
<key>T</key>
<array>
<string>T Jones</string>
<string>T King</string>
</array>
</dict>
</dict>
<dict>
<key>CategoryName</key>
<string>Another Test Category</string>
<key>CategoryID</key>
<integer>20</integer>
<key>Sections</key>
<dict>
<key>P</key>
<array>
<string>P Jones</string>开发者_JS百科;
<string>P King</string>
</array>
<key>S</key>
<array>
<string>S Jones</string>
<string>S King</string>
</array>
</dict>
</dict>
</array>
</dict>
So, what I need help with is how to get the people in each section depending on the required CategoryID. I think the main problem for me is, how do I determine which CategoryID to pull info out of (ie I know the CategoryID, but how do I relate this to the correct section) and then how do i loop through each section key (a, b, c etc..) when the key is the name of the section (does that make sense?).
Any help and thoughts are greatly appreciated! Thanks!
NSDictionary *myDictionary = //load your dictionary from the file here
NSArray *categoryArray = [myDictionary objectForKey:@"Categories"];
NSDictionary *neededCategory;
for (NSDictionary *category in categoryArray) {
NSNumber *categoryID = (NSNumber *)[category objectForKey @"CategoryID"];
if ([categoryID intValue] == neededCategoryID) {
neededCategory = category;
break;
}
}
//Sections
NSDictionary *sections = [neededCategory objectForKey:@"Sections"];
NSArray *allSectionKeys = [sections allKeys];
for (NSString *key in allSectionKeys) {
NSArray *name = [sections objectForKey:key];
//Do something with the name here
}
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