Question

I have an NSMutableArray of NSDictionarys something like this:

myArray (
    {
    chatins = 20;
    placeImageString = 244211112265925;
},
    {
    chatins = 5;
    placeImageString = 154909144575109;
},
    {
    chatins = 30;
    placeImageString = 193867280641162;
},
    {
    chatins = 13;
    placeImageString = 224627130902;
},

)

and another NSMutableArray of NSDictionarys something like this:

myArray2 
(
    {
    category = "Local business";
    distance = "0.1";
    name = "Mts India";
    placeImageString = 244211112265925;
},
    {
    category = "Local business";
    distance = "0.17";
    name = "Aegis Ltd";
    placeImageString = 154909144575109;
},
    {
    category = "Automobiles and parts";
    distance = "0.19";
    name = Autopsyche;
    placeImageString = 78480207511;
},
    {
    category = Company;
    distance = "0.19";
    name = "The Oberoi, Gurgaon";
    placeImageString = 121676041233945;
},

)

I want to merge myArray and myArray2 in order to get resulted NSMutableArray of NSDictionarys something like below where my placeImageString is the key to match the data in both arrays of dictionaries and if the key not found in myArray2 then the value of chatins key should be 0.

myArray3 
(
{
category = "Local business";
distance = "0.1";
name = "Mts India";
placeImageString = 244211112265925;
 chatins = 20;

},
{
category = "Local business";
distance = "0.17";
name = "Aegis Ltd";
placeImageString = 154909144575109;
chatins = 5;

},
{
category = "Automobiles and parts";
distance = "0.19";
name = Autopsyche;
placeImageString = 78480207511;
chatins = 0;


},
    {
    category = Company;
    distance = "0.19";
    name = "The Oberoi, Gurgaon";
    placeImageString = 121676041233945;
    chatins = 0;

    },
)

Answer 1

Here I have a sample code for you:

  NSMutableArray *array1 = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
  NSMutableArray *array2 = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];


  NSMutableDictionary * dict = [[NSMutableDictionary alloc]
                                initWithObjects:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"1",@"ABC", nil]
                                forKeys:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"ID",@"NAME", nil]];
  [array1 addObject:dict];

  dict = nil;

  /*
   Same way added 2 more dictionaries to the same array - array1
   */

  NSLog(@"array1: %@", array1);


  dict = nil;

  dict = [[NSMutableDictionary alloc]
          initWithObjects:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"1",@"DEF", nil]
          forKeys:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"ID",@"ADDRESS", nil]];

  [array2 addObject:dict];

  dict = nil;

  /*
   Same way added 2 more dictionaries to the same array - array2
   */


  NSLog(@"array2: %@", array2);


  for (int index = 0; index < [array1 count]; index ++) {

    NSMutableDictionary *dict1 = [array1 objectAtIndex:index];

    for (NSMutableDictionary *dict2 in array2) {

      if ([[dict1 objectForKey:@"ID"] isEqualToString:
           [dict2 objectForKey:@"ID"]]) {

        [dict1 setObject:[dict2 objectForKey:@"ADDRESS"] forKey:@"ADDRESS"];
      }
    }
  }

Now at the end if you check with array1, there is one more key (ADDRESS) added in all those dictionary.

Hope this help.

-Mrunal