Adding a UITableView in a ViewController is a great way to display data and information in a list, and it is easy to implement as well.

The problem arises when the developer have to implement more than one table views in a viewController using a single set of delegate methods. As it turns out it is quite simple to display two or more than two UITableViews in a ViewController.

The trick is to make IBOutlet of each and every table view that has to be displayed.

The next step includes using an (if-else) ladder to choose between the table views.

The Switch-Case statement will work equally well in this case.

Alternatively the developer can give unique tags to the tables and access them through their tags, then use the (if-else) ladder, or Switch-Case statement to choose between them.

The required code to implement this method is as follows.

#pragma mark Table View Delegates

-(NSInteger)numberOfSectionsInTableView:(UITableView *)tableView
{
    if (tableView == table1)
    {
        return 1;
    }
    else if (tableView == table2)
    {
        return 1;
    }
    else if (tableView == table3)
    {
        return 1;
    }
return 0;
}

-(NSInteger)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView numberOfRowsInSection:(NSInteger)section
{
    if (tableView == table1)
    {
        return [array1 count];
    }
    else if (tableView == table2)
    {
        return [array2 count];
    }
    else if (tableView == table3)
    {
        return [array3 count];
    }
    return 0;
}

-(UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
    static NSString *cellIdentifier = @"cell";
    UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:cellIdentifier];
    cell = nil;
    if (cell == nil)
    {
        cell = [[UITableViewCell alloc]initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleDefault reuseIdentifier:cellIdentifier];
    }
    if (tableView == table1)
    {
        cell.textLabel.text = [array1 objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];
        return cell;
    }
    else if (tableView == table2)
    {
    cell.textLabel.text = [array2 objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];
    return cell;
    }
    else if (tableView == table3)
    {
    cell.textLabel.text = [array3 objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];
    return cell;
    }
    return 0;
}

-(void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
    if (tableView == table1)
    {

    // Put your code here.

    }
    else if (tableView == table2)
    {

    // Put your code here.

    }
    else if (tableView == table3)
    {

    // Put your code here.

    }

}