Re: method writeToFile

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Monday, June 16, 2003, at 02:57  pm, Miroslav Novy wrote:

> Hi,
>   I have a problem with using the method writeToFile: atomically: in
> class NSDictionary on gnustep-base 1.6.0 on solaris 2.8 (sparc) with 
> gcc
> 2.95.3 (or gcc 3.2.1). I have created a dictionary with values of class
> NSNumber. For example:
>
> dct={i0 = 0; i1 = 1; i2 = 2; i3 = 3; i4 = 4; i5 = 5; i6 = 6; i7 = 7; i8
> = 8; i9 = 9; }
>
> When I wrote it onto disk with method writeToFile: atomically: , the 
> file
> is not correct:
>
>  {
>       i0 = <*BN>;
>       i1 = <*BY>;
>       i2 = <*I2>;
>       i3 = <*I3>;
>       i4 = <*I4>;
>       i5 = <*I5>;
>       i6 = <*I6>;
>       i7 = <*I7>;
>       i8 = <*I8>;
>       i9 = <*I9>;
>  }

That's writing the dictionary as a property list using the current 
format ... which supports numeric values where reading the property 
list back in.

If you want the old-style property list format, where numeric values 
will be read back in as NSString instead of NSNumber, you can set the 
NSWriteOldStylePropertyLists user default to YES.