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Asked: May 11, 20262026-05-11T21:38:05+00:00 2026-05-11T21:38:05+00:00

In Objective C, is there a one-liner or something small to remove (shorten by

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In Objective C, is there a one-liner or something small to remove (shorten by one) and return the first element of an array, regardless of its index?

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    2026-05-11T21:38:05+00:00Added an answer on May 11, 2026 at 9:38 pm

    I don’t know of a method that returns the item removed, but you can do this using a combination of NSArray#objectAtIndex:0 and NSMutableArray#removeObjectAtIndex:0. I suppose you could introduce a new method category on NSMutableArray that implements a shift method.

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