Question

In my Core Data app, I have an entity Person with names as attribute.
I used following predicate logic to search the names.
It displays names when we search with a word.
well but I want two groups of searched names as

1. Word containing anywhere in the name

2. Name starts withe the word.

both groups I want. How?

NSString *searchfilter = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"*%@*",savedSearchTerm_];
NSPredicate *filter = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"word like[c] %@", searchfilter];
[fetchRequest setPredicate:filter];

Answer 1

Your example should work for #1.

word is anywhere anywhere in the name:

NSString *searchfilter = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"*%@*",savedSearchTerm_];
NSPredicate *filter = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"word like[c] %@", searchfilter];
[fetchRequest setPredicate:filter];

name starts with the word:

NSString *searchfilter = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@*",savedSearchTerm_];
NSPredicate *filter = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"word like[c] %@", searchfilter];
[fetchRequest setPredicate:filter];