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Prakash Desai
Prakash Desai

Reputation: 168

how to remove NULL values from NSMutableArray? ios

i have array of birthdates as array is getting filled from facebook so there are some friends whos birthdates are private so it contain NULL how to convert that array like empty string wherever there is null value the array is like below 

"<null>",
"10/29/1988",
"11/13",
"03/24/1987",
"04/25/1990",
"03/13",
"01/01",
"<null>",
"12/15/1905",
"07/10",
"11/02/1990",
"12/30/1990",
"<null>",
"07/22/1990",
"01/01",
"07/17/1989",
"08/28/1990",
"01/10/1990",
"06/12/1990",

Upvotes: 7

Views: 7591

Answers (6)

Naresh
Naresh

Reputation: 17902

For json response I removed null values like this

NSArray *arr = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:_IDArray, _TypeArray, _NameArray, _FlagArray, nil];
for (int i=0; i<_integer; i++) {
// My json response assigned to above 4 arrayes

    //Now remove null values 
    //Remove null values
    for (int j=0; j<arr.count; j++) {
         for (NSMutableArray *ar in arr) {
              if ([[ar objectAtIndex:i] isKindOfClass:[NSNull class]] || [[ar objectAtIndex:i] isEqualToString:@"null"]) {
                  [ar addObject:@""];//Add empty value before remove null value
                  [ar removeObjectAtIndex:i];
              }
         }
    }

}

Now remove empty values

//Add arrays to mutable array to remove empty objects

NSArray *marr = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:_IDArray, _TypeArray, _NameArray, _FlagArray, nil];
//Remove empty objects from all arrays
for (int j=0; j<marr.count; j++) {
     for (int i=0; i<[[marr objectAtIndex:j] count]; i++) {
          if ([[[marr objectAtIndex:j] objectAtIndex:i] isEqualToString:@""]) {
              [[marr objectAtIndex:j] removeObjectAtIndex:i];
          }
      }
}

Upvotes: 0

Nithin Yell
Nithin Yell

Reputation: 103

    for(int i = 0;[yourMutableArray count] > 0;i++){
            if([yourMutableArray isKindOfClass:[NSNull class]]){ // indentifies and removes null values from mutable array

            [yourMutableArray removeObjectAtIndex:i];
                            // or 
            [yourMutableArray replaceObjectAtIndex:i withObject:@"No date available"];

            NSLog(@"*** %@",yourMutableArray);
            }
       }

Upvotes: 1

Ash
Ash

Reputation: 5712

In order to remove null values use :

[yourMutableArray removeObjectIdenticalTo:[NSNull null]];

You don't need iterate over.

Upvotes: 1

davis
davis

Reputation: 1951

You have to use this to remove the actual [NSNull null] value.

 [array removeObjectIdenticalTo:[NSNull null]];

Upvotes: 12

Sergey Kalinichenko
Sergey Kalinichenko

Reputation: 726499

The null values appear to be string literals @"<null>" rather than the NSNull objects typically used to represent nils in Cocoa collections. You can filter them out by using NSArray's filteredArrayUsingPredicate method:

NSArray *filtered = [original filteredArrayUsingPredicate:pred];

There are several ways of making the pred, one of them is

NSPredicate *pred = [NSPredicate predicateWithBlock:^BOOL(id str, NSDictionary *unused) {
    return ![str isEqualToString:@"<null>"];
}];

Upvotes: 14

tkanzakic
tkanzakic

Reputation: 5499

This works for me:

NSMutableArray *array = [NSMutableArray arrayWithObjects:
                         @"<null>",
                         @"10/29/1988",
                         @"11/13",
                         @"03/24/1987",
                         @"04/25/1990",
                         @"03/13",
                         @"01/01",
                         @"<null>",
                         @"12/15/1905",
                         @"07/10",
                         @"11/02/1990",
                         @"12/30/1990",
                         @"<null>",
                         @"07/22/1990",
                         @"01/01",
                         @"07/17/1989",
                         @"08/28/1990",
                         @"01/10/1990",
                         @"06/12/1990", nil];
NSLog(@"%d", [array count]);
NSString *nullStr = @"<null>";
[array removeObject:nullStr];
NSLog(@"%d", [array count]);

Upvotes: 3

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