loading and access plist data

Hi,

i have a plist in the following form:

Root (array)--->

item 1 (dictionary)
----> Sch (string)
---> Name (string)
----> price (number)

item 2 (dictionary)----> .....same as item 1


how can i access each row (item1 to ...) and the its child (Sch, Name etc.)? one at a time?

i use:

NSString *path = [[NSBundle mainBundle] bundlePath];
NSString *finalPath = [path stringByAppendingPathComponent"Data.plist"];
NSDictionary *plistData = [[NSDictionary dictionaryWithContentsOfFile:finalPath] retain];
to load the file. how such i go about accessing each child?

what i am trying to do is, i have a NSString *messeage, what i want to do is to search the whole plist for matching string and display the whole item 1. Any suggestion?

Thanks for the help! gd day!

 

i mean how can i access, as in load the plist, in xcode and retrieve each data.

 

thks for the help, i manage to solve this problem.
now i have another problem.
i have a new plist in this form:

Code:

<dict>  
   <key>11231654</key>
  <array>
      <string>hello</string>
      <string>goodbye</string>
  </array>
  <key>78978976</key>
  <array>
        <string>ok</string>
    <string>cancel</string>
   </array>

i load the plist using:

Code:

NSString *path = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:
                    @"data" ofType:@"plist"];
    // Build the array from the plist  
    NSMutableArray *array3 = [[NSMutableArray alloc] initWithContentsOfFile:path]; 

what i want to do is, i have a "label.text" which is some numbers,
i would like to go to the match key (11231654 for example) and search its child.

so firstly, i must compare label.text with all the key available.

i 1st try to load one key and display it(just to make sure i am accessing the data correctly)

i use:

Code:

                
		NSString *myString = [array3 objectAtIndex:0];	
		label.text = myString;

this will make label.text =11231654 ?

but its not displaying?

 

i see, i have change it. now how can i get the key value, 11231654?

as in i would to have a NSString = *number;
number will be equal to 11231654, so that i can use number to compare will others.

thks for the help!

 

hi, thks for the reply.

if i use:

Code:

array3 objectForKey:@"11231654"

i will be "looking" at the array inside the key 11231654, correct?

how can i "look at" the key(s) inside array3?

correct me if, i am wrong, but i should not be using objectforkey here.