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iOS Objective-C Basics (Retired) Foundation Framework NSDictionary

Posted by thomascawthorn
thomascawthorn
22,986 Points

Add to your mutableArray with a key of year and value of 1969

I'm trying to add the year 1969 onto my mutable dictionary, but it keeps saying I haven't set it to the right value. I swear I have this set up the same as the example project!

nsdictionary.mm 
NSDictionary *album = @{@"title":@"Abbey Road", @"artist":@"The Beatles"};
NSMutableDictionary *albumMutable = [NSMutableDictionary dictionaryWithDictionary:album];
[albumMutable setObject:@1969 forKey:@"year"];

1 Answer

Geoff Parsons
Geoff Parsons
11,679 Points

ObjectiveC doesn't like int types (literal numbers) to be used as keys as it wants some form of object. You could either create an NSNumber object out of 1969, or you could also just set the value as a NSString of "1969" which looks like what you were starting to do. In the latter case all you need to do is add quotes around it:

@"1969"
thomascawthorn
thomascawthorn
22,986 Points

That's odd because xcode is pretty happy with this:

    NSMutableDictionary *mutableBook = [NSMutableDictionary dictionaryWithDictionary:book];
    [mutableBook setObject:@1957 forKey:@"year"];
    NSLog(@"%@", mutableBook);

But yes! That has worked, thanks :-)