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Re: Need to force Lex-Order?

On Thursday, July 31, 2003, at 10:39 PM, Michael Hanna wrote:

Hello, I've written a Dictionary in plist format, in which I need to access the NSArrays in lex-order. However when I get allKeys:

You cannot depend on dictionary keys being stored or returned in any particular order.

Assuming that your dictionary keys are strings, as they appear to be, you can easily get a sorted list of keys with:

keyArray = [[theDict allKeys] sortedArrayUsingSelector:@selector(caseInsensitiveCompare:)];

If your keys are other object types, you'll need to use some other sortedArray... variant, but the principle will be the same.

sherm--
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