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Harry Stromfelt
2,985 PointsHow can you access all items in an array/dictionary, if the inputs are of different type?
The for loops that I have seen use for (NSString *item in theDictionaryORArray){} What would you do if you had some integers and strings stored in the same array? Or is that not possible?
Thanks!
2 Answers
Michael Bowen
770 PointsYou could use the regular for(;;) loop instead of the enumeration loop. The items in the array and dictionary must be objects though; can't put primitives in there. Then you would just print them out with %@ since it is a wrapper function that fetches the correct format depending on the type of object.
Alfian Losari
9,495 PointsI think you cannot put primitive data type such as int, float, bool to the NSArray, NSArray only accept object to add to the array. If you want to put int, float, bool data type you must use the NSNumber , and then add it to the NSArray. But be careful, if you have an NSArray containing NSString and NSNumber, then you cannot loop it using for (NSString *item in the NSArray), it will crash. Objective-C provide dynamic typing to reference to the value in the NSArray whatever the type of the objects are in the array by using id. You can use it like this. for (id item in yourArray) { NSLog("%@", item)}. %@ is used to reference to the value inside the according to the object descriptor method.