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    <p>Link to <code>libsqlite3.dylib</code> (and import <code>&lt;sqlite3.h&gt;</code>) to access the power of SQLite. There are a number of lightweight Objective-C front ends and I suggest you pick one. In this example, I use <code>fmdb</code> (https://github.com/ccgus/fmdb) to read the names of people out of a previously created database:</p> <pre><code>NSString* docsdir = [NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains( NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES) lastObject]; NSString* dbpath = [docsdir stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"people.db"]; FMDatabase* db = [FMDatabase databaseWithPath:dbpath]; if (![db open]) { NSLog(@"Ooops"); return; } FMResultSet *rs = [db executeQuery:@"select * from people"]; while ([rs next]) { NSLog(@"%@ %@", [rs stringForColumn:@"firstname"], [rs stringForColumn:@"lastname"]); } [db close]; /* output: Snidely Whiplash Dudley Doright */ </code></pre> <p>That illustrates talking to the database; knowing SQL is up to you (and is a different topic). You can include a previously constructed SQLite file in your app bundle, but you can't write to it there; the solution is to copy it from your app bundle into another location, such as the Documents directory, before you start working with it.</p> <p>Finally, to put strings into text fields (UITextField), set their <code>text</code> property. So for example instead of the <code>while</code> loop shown above, where I log the database results, I could use those results to set text field values:</p> <pre><code>myTextField.text = [rs stringForColumn:@"firstname"]; myOtherTextField.text = [rs stringForColumn:@"lastname"]; </code></pre>
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    1. COThanks for your response Matt! I've tried what you've suggested but I am unclear of two things: 1. The link you supplied for fmdb just goes to a page where you can download a project? Is fmdb supposed to be a framework? 2. In your example you've used people.db, looking at your code structure it looks like your using/saving a database that is in the documents folder bundled with the app. I need to make a pre-existing SQL database that is read only that I will have saved in my projects resources folder. Correct me if I'm worn here? Thanks again!
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    2. COfmdb is just some classes, drag right into your project and use. - The database file can be anywhere; as I said, my app started out by copying the database from the app bundle to the Documents directory before opening it, just in case I wanted to write to it.
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    3. COHi Matt, I've added the classes to my project and imported the .h files, but now I'm having an error "duplicate symbol _main in...." this seems overcomplicated and very code heavy compared with other tutorials on extracting data from a sqlite database, only problem with all the tutorials I've seen is that they all import an entire first column into a table view, I simply need to specify which row from the database and extract the data from that rows columns.
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