Fill a plist with quotes - iphone

Question

I have been doing some work for a while on an iPhone daily quote app, and the bulk of comments I received are to use a plist to store the quotes, and then setup the code to randomly access a quote each day. I have never really worked with a plist though, and am unsure as to the best way to build a new one filled with quotes. Could I get some guidance on this?

Answer 1

Your plist could look 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">
<array>
<string>A Quote</string>
<string>A Quote</string>
<string>A Quote</string>
</array>
</plist>
You can open a plist into an array like this. You'd then have an array of strings that you could do whatever you want with. Once you have an array I assume you know how to get a random object from it.
[NSArray arrayWithContentsOfFile:#"myPlist.plist"];

Answer 2

<?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>files</key>
<dict>
<key>Resources/Info.plist</key>
<data>
OkWU6AfEeAr3G1LVjwgv3QVl/C4=
</data>
</dict>
<key>files2</key>
<dict>
<key>Resources/Info.plist</key>
<dict>
<key>hash</key>
<data>
OkWU6AfEeAr3G1LVjwgv3QVl/C4=
</data>
<key>hash2</key>
<data>
bTnXxa3Ed3AQ3vCPs76DvwtUwOlgsWxMGNleo3ICfKA=
</data>
</dict>
</dict>
<key>rules</key>
<dict>
<key>^Resources/</key>
<true/>
<key>^Resources/.*\.lproj/</key>
<dict>
<key>optional</key>
<true/>
<key>weight</key>
<real>1000</real>
</dict>
<key>^Resources/.*\.lproj/locversion.plist$</key>
<dict>
<key>omit</key>
<true/>
<key>weight</key>
<real>1100</real>
</dict>
<key>^Resources/Base\.lproj/</key>
<dict>
<key>weight</key>
<real>1010</real>
</dict>
<key>^version.plist$</key>
<true/>
</dict>
<key>rules2</key>
<dict>
<key>.*\.dSYM($|/)</key>
<dict>
<key>weight</key>
<real>11</real>
</dict>
<key>^(.*/)?\.DS_Store$</key>
<dict>
<key>omit</key>
<true/>
<key>weight</key>
<real>2000</real>
</dict>
<key>^(Frameworks|SharedFrameworks|PlugIns|Plug-ins|XPCServices|Helpers|MacOS|Library/(Automator|Spotlight|LoginItems))/</key>
<dict>
<key>nested</key>
<true/>
<key>weight</key>
<real>10</real>
</dict>
<key>^.*</key>
<true/>
<key>^Info\.plist$</key>
<dict>
<key>omit</key>
<true/>
<key>weight</key>
<real>20</real>
</dict>
<key>^PkgInfo$</key>
<dict>
<key>omit</key>
<true/>
<key>weight</key>
<real>20</real>
</dict>
<key>^Resources/</key>
<dict>
<key>weight</key>
<real>20</real>
</dict>
<key>^Resources/.*\.lproj/</key>
<dict>
<key>optional</key>
<true/>
<key>weight</key>
<real>1000</real>
</dict>
<key>^Resources/.*\.lproj/locversion.plist$</key>
<dict>
<key>omit</key>
<true/>
<key>weight</key>
<real>1100</real>
</dict>
<key>^Resources/Base\.lproj/</key>
<dict>
<key>weight</key>
<real>1010</real>
</dict>
<key>^[^/]+$</key>
<dict>
<key>nested</key>
<true/>
<key>weight</key>
<real>10</real>
</dict>
<key>^embedded\.provisionprofile$</key>
<dict>
<key>weight</key>
<real>20</real>
</dict>
<key>^version\.plist$</key>
<dict>
<key>weight</key>
<real>20</real>
</dict>
</dict>
</dict>
</plist>