Question

I was wondering if there’s anyway to filter a set using NSPredicate sorted by date, where the date is an NSString in MMMM dd (i.e. March 24) format (it’s NOT an NSDate.).

Answer 1

If you are storing the date as a string in CoreData, the predicate is simple.

    NSPredicate* predicate = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"theDate like %@", theDateString];

But I’m guessing that the date is stored as an NSDate object. Look into using NSDateFormatter to convert your string to an NSDate.

NSDateFormatter* df = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[df setDateFormat:@"MMMM dd"];
NSDate* theDate = [df dateFromString:theDateString];
NSPredicate* predicate = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"SomeDate >= %@", theDate];