Property List Serialization

gistfile1.m

// NSArray and NSDictionary have methods to write to files using the .plist format
// If your array/dictionary only contains NSNumber, NSDate, NSData or NSString objects, this works like a charm!

NSArray *strings = @[@"stringOne", @"stringTwo"];
NSString *filePath = @"/Path/To/Documents/data.plist";

BOOL successfullyWroteFile = [strings writeToFile:filePath atomically:YES];

// For error handling, you can check the successfullWroteFile variable


// If you later need to get this data back, there are methods to read a plist back into an NSArray or NSDictionary

NSArray *strings = [NSArray arrayWithContentsOfFile:filePath];

// Cool eh?
// I use this sometimes when I need to persist really simple data structures