custom compare method in objective c

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I'm trying to use a custom compare method (for use with sortedArrayusingSelector) and on another website I got that the format is:

-(NSComparisonResult) orderByName:(id)otherobject { That's all bery well and good except how do I compare the otherObject to anything as there's only one thing passed to the method?

Like how does the NSString method of compare: compare 2 strings when only one string is passed?

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