Dynamic name of ns mutable dictionary

[albh]

Hi everyone

I load from a txt file many info, and I would like, if possible, to dynamically create NSmutable dictionary with the elements of the txt.

For example, each is like that:
id of element | date | text

What I'm asking is the equivalent of the NSString stringWithFormat:.
Can we do the same for an Mutable Dictionary?

To be more practical, let's say the NSString *date is equal to "23/12/2009" (for europe). I want to create a dictionary called 23/12/2009 without declaring *23/12/2009 but just something like dictionaryWithFormat: @"%@", date];

I'm stuck on this, and I don't even know if it is possible. If not, what's the best way to approach that?

Thanks everyone

Regards

[smithdale87]

What's the point of dynamically naming your variables?

[albh]

It's to automatically create table view with headers and rows easily

[TeenVoice]

I also want to change the name of cells in my NSMutable array dictionary without having to send a change to the App Store every time.

Were you ever able to do that?

[dany_dev]

you can download from web an xml with your informations.

So that you can parse it and update your arrays that represent the name of the cell and the other things.

[TeenVoice]

Originally Posted by dany_dev

you can download from web an xml with your informations.

So that you can parse it and update your arrays that represent the name of the cell and the other things.

***

Thank you. Can you send me a sample script of how to do that? I need to replace the "Revolution in Libya" name with a link to the XML file.

[topArea addObject:[[NSMutableDictionary alloc] initWithObjectsAndKeys:
@"Revolution in Libya",@"name",
@"hottopic.png",@"picture",
@"http://www.WHERE THE LINK FILE IS LOCATED",@"url",nil]];

[dany_dev]

first thing you don't need a "script" because objective-c is not a scripting language.

however i have no ready code for you.

google NSURLConnection or ASIHTTPRequest to understand how you can download a file xml, then google NSXMLParser to understand how you can parse a file xml.......then should be trivial to create objects dinamically.

[Duncan C]

Originally Posted by albh

Hi everyone

I load from a txt file many info, and I would like, if possible, to dynamically create NSmutable dictionary with the elements of the txt.

For example, each is like that:
id of element | date | text

What I'm asking is the equivalent of the NSString stringWithFormat:.
Can we do the same for an Mutable Dictionary?

To be more practical, let's say the NSString *date is equal to "23/12/2009" (for europe). I want to create a dictionary called 23/12/2009 without declaring *23/12/2009 but just something like dictionaryWithFormat: @"%@", date];

I'm stuck on this, and I don't even know if it is possible. If not, what's the best way to approach that?

Thanks everyone

Regards

Sounds to me like you should use a single dictionary to store all of your records.

A dictionary stores key/value pairs. The key is almost always a string. The value is any object.

So you could use either the date or the id of the item as the key, and save the data as the value.

I don't quite understand what you're trying to do, though.

Don't describe creating a dictionary, because I think you misunderstand how to use dictionaries. Instead, describe the type of information you want to store, and how you want to retrieve it. e.g. I want to create a database of records using an ID number as a key. Each record would contain a date and a text string.

If you want to be able to look up these records using multiple keys the problem is more complicated. (If you want to be able to find items by ID number or by date, for example). In that case you might want to create an SQL database.