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Re: Validating dictionary strings file
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Re: Validating dictionary strings file


  • Subject: Re: Validating dictionary strings file
  • From: "David M. Cotter" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 22:23:20 -0800

strings files are not true dictionary files in the sense of NS or CF dictionaries, so you can't treat them like an xml file (plist)

you can parse them line by line, manually, if you want to read them in.  unless there's another way i don't know about.


On Nov 20, 2011, at 9:33 PM, Gideon King wrote:

> Hi, I'm trying to use NSDictionary's dictionaryWithContentsOfFile: method and am getting an error: CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary.
>
> The entire file is of the format:
>
> /*some comment */
> "Some string" = "Some other string";
>
> Clearly there is some formatting error in the file but it is a rather large file and would take a very long time to manually go through and find the issue - is there some tool available that will tell me where to look in the file for the error?
>
> Thanks
>
> Gideon

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