On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:49 PM, Jerry Krinock <je...@ieee.org> wrote:
>
> On 2009 Mar 25, at 19:53, Pierce Freeman wrote:
>
>> I am attempting to sort through the contents of a .plist file in
>> NSDictionary, but am running into some problems. Since .plist files are
>> kind of like a "tree", I can't just call objectForKey as there is no way
>> for
>> me to return the instance that I am looking for. How would someone get a
>> certain key for each part of the tree?
>
> -valueForKeyPath:
>
> If your key path is in the form of an array, use this from my NSDictionary
> helpers...
>
> - (id)valueForKeyPathArray:(NSArray*)keyPathArray {
> NSString* keyPath = [keyPathArray componentsJoinedByString:@"."] ;
> return [self valueForKeyPath:keyPath] ;
> }
Note that this will fail hard if any of your keys have a . in them,
something that's perfectly legal. I would much prefer something like
this:
- (id)valueForKeyPathArray:(NSArray*)keyPathArray {
id obj = self;
for(id key in keyPathArray)
obj = [obj objectForKey:key];
return obj;
}
Mike
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