19. Archiving

In Objective-C terms, archiving is the process of saving one or more objects in a format so that they can later be restored. Often this involves writing the objects to a file so that they can subsequently be read back in. We discuss two methods for archiving data in this chapter: property lists and key-valued coding.

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