Cast an NSDictionary value while applying an NSPredicate?
- by RickiG
Hi
I have an Array of NSDictionary objects.
These Dictionaries are parsed from a JSON file.
All value objects in the NSDictionary are of type NSString, one key is called "distanceInMeters".
I had planned on filtering these arrays using an NSPredicate, so I started out like this:
NSPredicate *predicate = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"(distanceInMeters <= %f)", newValue];
NSArray *newArray = [oldArray filteredArrayUsingPredicate:predicate];
I believe this would have worked if the value for the "distanceInMeters" key was an NSNumber, but because I have it from a JSON file everything is NSStrings.
The above gives this error:* -[NSCFNumber length]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x3936f00**
Which makes sense as I had just tried to treat an NSString as an NSNumber.
Is there a way to cast the values from the dictionary while they are being filtered, or maybe a completely different way of getting around this?
Hope someone can help me :)
