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copied!<p>Newbie question: Can one substitue commands, properties or methods for NSStrings or char at runtime?</p> <p>Lets say I do something like this:</p> <pre><code>//these are the names of my properties of an NSObject I created char theChangingProperty[17][18] = {"name", "title", "number", "property4", "property5", "property6", "property7", "property8", "property9", "property10", "property11", "property12", "property13", "property14", "property15", "property16", "property17"}; </code></pre> <p>(PS I know there is a better actual objective-c way of getting an objects properties, I even found a post with this <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/754824/get-an-object-attributes-list-in-objective-c">Get an object properties list in Objective-C</a>)</p> <p>anyway, how does one iterate through a list and have the property name change? Lets say I'm using dot notation at runtime during a loop... If I wanted to set 17 (or 100!) different properties of my object all to values of some other array all at once, like this:</p> <pre><code>for (int t=1; t<17; t++) { myObject.theChangingProperty[t] = valueOfAnotherArray[t]; } </code></pre> <p>I know objective-c is going to look for an actual property called "theChangingProperty". But I want that to be an array that will spit out the actual property that would change with each loop iteration (name, title, number, property4, etc)</p> <p>Thanks for your time in answering a newbie question :)</p>

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