title: iOS Plist Object Count Error?
body: <p>I am initializing several .plist files with 256 objects into a <code>NSMutableArray</code> with the following code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>NSMutableArray *return_list = [[NSMutableArray alloc]initWithContentsOfFile:[[NSBundle mainBundle]pathForResource:list_name ofType:@".plist"]];
  
  NSLog(@"numitems: %d", [return_list count]);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Out of 10 plists, this code is correctly loading and counting the number of items in the list. However, for one of the plists, it is consistently listing the item count as 253, which is very perplexing.</p>
  
  <p>Plist edit pro says "256 ordered objects", and the built-in Xcode plist viewer claims the same number.</p>
  
  <p>What could be going wrong here?</p>