A simple level creating DSL. I am kinda proud of myself for doing this. This little DSL will probably be expanded and given it's own GUI for The Outer Ring 2.0

dsl.m

- (NSDictionary *) readMap: (NSString *)content
{
	content = [content stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"--------------------" withString:@""];
	NSMutableArray *map1 = [@[] mutableCopy];
	NSArray *array = [content componentsSeparatedByCharactersInSet:[NSCharacterSet newlineCharacterSet]];
	NSMutableArray *arrayMut1 = [[NSMutableArray alloc] initWithArray:[self splitArrayWithArray:array rangeNumber:([array count] / 2)] copyItems:YES];
	
	NSMutableArray *arrayMut = [NSMutableArray new];
	for(NSArray *subarray in arrayMut1) {
		NSMutableArray *subCopy = [NSMutableArray new];
		for (id item in subarray){
			[subCopy addObject:[item copy]];
		}
		[arrayMut addObject: subCopy];
	}
	[arrayMut[1] removeObject:@""];
	[arrayMut[1] addObject:arrayMut[2][0]];
	[arrayMut removeObject:arrayMut[2]];
	
	if (!content) {
		NSLog(@"Error reading level file.");
	}
  NSLog(@"%@", arrayMut);
	NSAssert([arrayMut[0] count] == ((NSString *)arrayMut[0][0]).length, @"Level expected to be of equal size and length.");
	//NSString *char = [content substringWithRange:NSMakeRange(0, 1)];
	for (int i = 0; i < [arrayMut[0] count]; i++) {
		[map1 addObject:[[NSArray array] mutableCopy]];
	}
	NSArray *arrayNMut = arrayMut[1];
	arrayMut = arrayMut[0];
	for (int i = 0; i < [arrayMut count]; i++) {
		for (int j = 0; j < [arrayMut[i] length]; j++) {
			NSString *charac = [arrayMut[i] substringWithRange:NSMakeRange(j, 1)];
			if ([charac isEqual: @"."]) {
				[map1[i] addObject: self.tiles[0]];
			} else if ([charac isEqual: @"#"]) {
				[map1[i] addObject: self.tiles[2]];
			} else if ([charac isEqual: @"@"]) {
				[map1[i] addObject: self.tiles[1]];
			} 
		}
	}
	NSMutableArray *map2 = [NSMutableArray array];
	for (int i = 0; i < [arrayNMut count]; i++) {
		[map2 addObject:[[NSArray array] mutableCopy]];
	}
	for (int i = 0; i < [arrayNMut count]; i++) {
		for (int j = 0; j < [arrayNMut[i] length]; j++) {
			NSString *charac = [arrayNMut[i] substringWithRange:NSMakeRange(j, 1)];
			if ([charac isEqual: @"."]) {
				[map2[i] addObject: self.tiles[0]];
			} else if ([charac isEqual: @"#"]) {
				[map2[i] addObject: self.tiles[2]];
			} else if ([charac isEqual: @"@"]) {
				[map2[i] addObject: self.tiles[1]];
			} 
		}
	}
	NSLog(@"map2: %@", map2);
	return @{
					 @"mutableMap": map1,
					 @"map": [NSArray arrayWithArray: map2]
					 };
}