For validation, try "plutil -lint yourFile.plist" in the Terminal. Also, use 
curly braces for dictionaries in old-style ASCII plists. 

👱 Brian Krent 

On Nov 20, 2011, at 11:33 PM, Gideon King <gid...@novamind.com> wrote:

> Hi, I'm trying to use NSDictionary's dictionaryWithContentsOfFile: method and 
> am getting an error: CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist 
> parser: missing semicolon in dictionary.
> 
> The entire file is of the format:
> 
> /*some comment */
> "Some string" = "Some other string";
> 
> Clearly there is some formatting error in the file but it is a rather large 
> file and would take a very long time to manually go through and find the 
> issue - is there some tool available that will tell me where to look in the 
> file for the error?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Gideon
> 
> 
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