Question

How to search an NSSet or NSArray for an object which has an specific value for an specific property?

Example: I have an NSSet with 20 objects, and every object has an type property. I want to get the first object which has [theObject.type isEqualToString:@"standard"].

I remember that it was possible to use predicates somehow for this kind of stuff, right?

Answer 1

NSPredicate *predicate = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"type == %@", @"standard"];
NSArray *filteredArray = [myArray filteredArrayUsingPredicate:predicate];
id firstFoundObject = nil;
firstFoundObject =  filteredArray.count > 0 ? filteredArray.firstObject : nil;

NB: The notion of the first found object in an NSSet makes no sense since the order of the objects in a set is undefined.