Vira's blog » cocoa http://ivira.name/blog Blog about things that I love Wed, 12 May 2010 07:55:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Cocoa Tip: Filtering NSArray using NSPredicate http://ivira.name/blog/2010/01/13/cocoa-tip-filtering-nsarray-using-nspredicate/ http://ivira.name/blog/2010/01/13/cocoa-tip-filtering-nsarray-using-nspredicate/#comments Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:13:35 +0000 vira http://ivira.name/blog/?p=160 Today I had a small task in one of my projects – to get subset of elements from NSArray. I’ve already started writing all this NSEnumerator-s stuff (need to support 10.4) when I remembered about NSPredicator. So, instead of iterating over an array and finding elements that satisfy some condition and adding them to some output array you just need to create predicate and filter your input array with it. Here is the sample code:

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NSPredicate *predicate = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"storeState == 1"];
NSArray  *outputArray = [inputArray filteredArrayUsingPredicate:predicate];

Predicates language seems to be very powerful and simple. But I can’t tell you anything about performance, need to investigate.

Further reading: Apple Predicates Programming Guide

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