plist

[peterjunsworth]

Hi,

I am new to objective-c and trying to teach myself but finding it fairly tricky.

I am trying to work with property lists.



In my plist I have an array which contains 2 dictionaries, inside each dictionary is 1 string and 5 further dictionaries.



What I want to do is setup a tableview with sections.

The number of sections will be however many dictionaries are inside the outer array - In this case: 2.

locations is the outer array:

locations = [[NSArray alloc]initWithContentsOfFile:myfile];

- (NSInteger)numberOfSectionsInTableView:(UITableView *)tableView {
    return [locations count];
}

Where I am struggling is creating the number of rows in each section, which I want to be the number of dictionaries inside the outer dictionaries - In this case it would be 5 for each, but this could change as the plist grows.

The below returns everything from the outer dictionary including the strings - how can I just return the number of dictionaries.

area is an NSDictionary by the way.

- (NSInteger)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView numberOfRowsInSection:(NSInteger)section {
    for (int i = 0; i < [locations count]; i++){
        area = [locations objectAtIndex:0]; //This is the dictionary in all cases
        NSLog(@"dictionary count = %i", [area count]);
    }
 }

Does this make sense and can anyone help me out?



Thanks



Peter