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    <p>I am a beginning iPhone SDK programmer. I built a simple practice application I am trying to use to learn more about table views. It's an app that loads football teams from a plist and displays them in a table view with their stadium name and logo. Tapping the team goes to a detail view for that team.</p> <p>I am trying to understand how to add sections to this, so that I might have a couple of teams in one section and others in another section, etc.</p> <p>I would assume I need to both re-structure my plist and change the code to read arrays from the different levels of the plist?</p> <p>To begin, I had a plist with the root array consisting of 3 dictionaries, one for each team. Each dictionary had 3 keys, "name" "stadium" and "logo". This works fine. I am loading it via:</p> <pre><code>NSString *path = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"teams" ofType:@"plist"]; teams = [[NSMutableArray alloc] initWithContentsOfFile:path]; </code></pre> <p>and then</p> <pre><code>// Configure the cell. NSDictionary *team = [teams objectAtIndex:indexPath.row]; cell.textLabel.text = [team objectForKey:@"name"]; NSString *imgPath = [team valueForKey:@"logo"]; cell.imageView.image = [UIImage imageNamed:imgPath]; cell.detailTextLabel.text =[team objectForKey:@"stadium"]; return cell; </code></pre> <p>No problem. But now I wanted the sections, so I changed my plist to:</p> <pre><code>&lt;array&gt; &lt;dict&gt; &lt;key&gt;teams 1&lt;/key&gt; &lt;array&gt; &lt;dict&gt; &lt;key&gt;name&lt;/key&gt; &lt;string&gt;Packers&lt;/string&gt; &lt;key&gt;stadium&lt;/key&gt; &lt;string&gt;Lambeau Field&lt;/string&gt; &lt;key&gt;logo&lt;/key&gt; &lt;string&gt;packers.jpg&lt;/string&gt; &lt;/dict&gt; &lt;dict&gt; &lt;key&gt;name&lt;/key&gt; &lt;string&gt;Jets&lt;/string&gt; &lt;key&gt;stadium&lt;/key&gt; &lt;string&gt;Giants Stadium&lt;/string&gt; &lt;key&gt;logo&lt;/key&gt; &lt;string&gt;jets_logo.jpg&lt;/string&gt; &lt;/dict&gt; &lt;/array&gt; &lt;/dict&gt; &lt;dict&gt; &lt;key&gt;teams 2&lt;/key&gt; &lt;array&gt; &lt;dict&gt; &lt;key&gt;name&lt;/key&gt; &lt;string&gt;Cincinnati Bengals&lt;/string&gt; &lt;key&gt;stadium&lt;/key&gt; &lt;string&gt;Paul Brown Stadium&lt;/string&gt; &lt;key&gt;logo&lt;/key&gt; &lt;string&gt;bengals.jpg&lt;/string&gt; &lt;/dict&gt; &lt;/array&gt; &lt;/dict&gt; </code></pre> <p> </p> <p>And I am unsure how to modify the viewDidLoad to assign the sections to one NSArray and the teams "level" to another array.</p>
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