Question

I have a search bar added to the navigation bar. When the user types a word and clicks the search button (keyboard) I need to display results in the table related to the search.

When I click “Search”, I get blank records (it actually goes inside the if condition in the searchBarSearchButtonClicked: method and adds the animal object too). I think there’s a problem in

[mutableArray addObject:animal];
...
self.animalArray = mutableArray;    
[self.tableView reloadData];

My complete code is as follows.

-(void)searchBarSearchButtonClicked:(UISearchBar *)searchBar{
    [self.mutableArray removeAllObjects];
    for (Animal *animal in self.animalArray) {
        if ([[animal nameOfAnimal] isEqualToString:[searchBar text]] ) {                
            [mutableArray addObject:animal];
        }
    }
    self.animalArray = mutableArray;    
    [self.tableView reloadData];
    [searchBar resignFirstResponder];
}

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
    static NSString *CellIdentifier = @"Cell";
    Cell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier];
    if (cell == nil) {        
        Animal *animal = [self.animalArray objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];        
        cell = [[Cell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleDefault 
                           reuseIdentifier:CellIdentifier];
        cell.nameofani.text=animal.nameOfAnimal;   
        cell.oriofani.text=animal.originOfAnimal;  
    }
    return cell;
}

Answer 1

try:

self.animalArray = [mutableArray copy];