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Emmie Capps
Emmie Capps

Reputation: 65

Sort numbers inside an array of custom objects

i tried this, this and this link

I have an array (Say personObjectArray) which contains objects of class Person.

Class Person having 2 variables say, NSString *name, NSString *age.

Here age has type of nsstring.

Now when i sort like below, 

personObjectArray = [[personObjectArray sortedArrayUsingComparator:^NSComparisonResult(Person *p1, Person *p2){

    return [p1.age compare:p2.age];

}] mutableCopy];

It sorts like this,

1, 11, 123 2, 23, 3... It sorts like alphabetical order not considering it as an number.

So i change my code like this, 

personObjectArray = [[personObjectArray sortedArrayUsingComparator:^NSComparisonResult(Person *p1, Person *p2){

    return [[p1.age intValue] compare:[p2.age intValue] ];

}] mutableCopy];

And it says, Bad receiver type 'int'

How can i sort now ? Please don't tell me to change the datatype of age in Person class. I can't change it. Any help appreciated (: , Thanks for the time.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 111

Answers (2)

Ganesh
Ganesh

Reputation: 1919

You were using compare on a primitive (Not Object) type int , hence it won't work.

Try this 

 return [@([p1.age intValue]) compare:@([p2.age intValue])];

Here, we are using NSNumber (Which is an object type) to compare the int values

@() is a NSNumber's literal

Hope this will help you.. (:

Upvotes: 2

Yassir
Yassir

Reputation: 80

Try this : 

personObjectArray = [[personObjectArray sortedArrayUsingComparator:^NSComparisonResult(Person *p1, Person *p2){
    return [p1.age compare:p2.age options:NSNumericSearch];
}] mutableCopy];

Upvotes: 0

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