How can I loop through UITableView's cells?

Question

I have n sections (known amount) and X rows in each section (unknown amount. Each row has a UITextField. When the user taps the \"Done\" button I want to iterate through eac

Answer 1

Here's a completely different way of thinking about looping through UITableView rows...here's an example of changing the text that might populate your UITextView by looping through your array, essentially meaning your tableView cell data.

All cells are populated with data from some kind of model. A very common model would be using an NSObject and NSMutableArray of those objects. If you were in didSelectRowAtIndexPath, you would then want to do something like this to affect the row you're selecting after modifying the array above:

for(YourObject *cellRow in yourArray)
{
    if(![cellRow.someString isEqualToString:@""])
    {
         cellRow.someString = @"";
    }
    //...tons of options for conditions related to your data
}

YourObject *obj = [yourArray objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];
obj.someString = @"selected";
[yourArray insertObject:views atIndex:indexPath.row];
[yourArray removeObjectAtIndex:indexPath.row];
[yourTable reloadData];

This code would remove all the UITextField's text in every row except the one you selected, leaving the text "selected" in the tapped cell's UITextField as long as you're using obj.someString to populate the field's text in cellForRowAtIndexPath or willDisplayRowAtIndexPath using YourObject and yourArray.

This type of "looping" doesn't require any conditions of visible cells vs non visible cells. If you have multiple sections populated by an array of dictionaries, you could use the same logic by using a condition on a key value. Maybe you want to toggle a cells imageView, you could change the string representing the image name. Tons of options to loop through the data in your tableView without using any delegated UITableView properties.