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POReading a .csv into NSObjects and then sorting them by different criterias
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copied!<p>This is more a open question than an error-related question, so if you don't like to answer these kinds of questions, please don't flame.</p> <p>I have a huge (!) list of ships in a .csv file, separated by <code>,</code></p> <p>The matrix is organised like this: <img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/oYtou.png" alt="enter image description here"><br> repeated with different data about 500 times. </p> <p>Now, I want this to be read into objects, which can be used further to populate a <code>UITableView</code> Currently, I hard-code data into the object files, like this </p> <pre><code>arrayWithObjectsForTableView = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init]; if ([boatsFromOwner isEqualToString:@"Owner1"]) { cargoShips* ship = [[cargoShips alloc]init]; ship.name = @"name1"; ship.size = 1000; ship.owner = @"Owner1"; [self.boatsForOwner addObject:ship]; ship = [[cargoShips alloc]init]; ship.name = @"Name 2"; ship.size = 2000; ship.owner = @"Owner2"; </code></pre> <p>And so on and on with if-else's. This is a bad method, as 1) Its boring and takes a long time 2) It takes even more time if I want to update the information. So, I figured it would be smarter to read programmatically from the matrix instead of doing it myself. Yeah, captain obvious came for a visit to my brain.</p> <p><strong>So, to the question!</strong> How can I read the .csv file that looks like this: <img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Q7xTW.png" alt="enter image description here"> add the ships of, say, owner, to a <code>NSMutableArray</code>, in the shape of objects. (So they can be used to feed my <code>UITableView</code> with ships. </p> <p>I would also like to have the option to sort by different stuff, like Country of build, Operator etc. How can I make code that feeds relevant ships read from the .csv into objects? I don't know much programming, so in-depth answers would be very appreciated. </p>

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