Question

I have an NSArray which contain objects. my Objects are like this :

@interface Personne : NSObject{

    int _id;
    NSString *name;
}

I have a Web services which returns to me persons by name. for example; when I click in the search bar and I put “a”, the server returns to me all the persons where her name contains “a”, I put the result in an NSArray. Now I would like to sort my array and put the persons whose name begins with “a” in the beginning of my array and the others at the end. How can I do this?

Edit: For example I have the response of the server like this :

marakech  
arabie  
malakit  
arsenal  
astonvilla

I would like to sort like this :

arabie 
arsenal 
astonvilla 
malakit

Answer 1

You can use this method:

- (NSArray *)sortedArrayUsingComparator:(NSComparator)cmptr

which takes a comparator block, then you can put your sorting criteria in the block like this:

mySortedArray = [myArrat sortedArrayUsingComparator: ^(id a, id b) {
    //criteria;
    return [a compare:b];