NSDictionary's allKeys array messed up - not in the order they are in the dictionary?
ios, iphone, nsarray, nsdictionary, plist
Solution
Much like there is no order between items in an NSSet, there's is no inherent order to the key-value pairs within an NSDictionary.
If you want keys under a specific order, you'd need to use something like `- (NSArray *)keysSortedByValueUsingComparator:(NSComparator)cmptr` but that won't give the order in which the NSDictionary was serialized in the plist file.
Problem
in my project I'm pulling data from a .plist, more concretely from an NSDictionary. I init a dictionary with the contents of the .plist, which works well. When I then do ``` NSArray *array = [dict allKeys]; ``` it fills the array with all the keys, but in a totally random order, different to the order they are in the .plist file. I would really need to preserve the order. The keys in the dictionary are arrays, if that could cause a problem. What am I not getting? Thanks a lot in advance!