How to remove duplicate records / objects from NSArray

Submitted by Administrator on Fri, 02/10/2012 - 14:50
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Example code how to remove duplicate records / objects from NSArray and return a NSMutableArray with a unique record set.
Using:
Xcode 4.2.1
Mac OS X 10.7.2
Cocoa
 
First create and execute a fetch request in the example i will use a Address entity a fetchedObjects array will be returned with duplicate streetnames.

NSEntityDescription *entity = [NSEntityDescription 

                                       entityForName:@"Address" inManagedObjectContext:context];

             

NSArray *fetchedObjects = [context executeFetchRequest:fetchRequest error:&error];
 
 
After executing the executeFetchRequest create a NSSet object which by design can only hold unique objects and set the valueForKey to the field with duplicates.

NSSet *uniqueSet = [NSSet setWithArray:[fetchedObjects valueForKey:@"streetName"]];

   
NSMutableArray *uniqueArray = [NSMutableArray arrayWithArray:[uniqueSet allObjects]];                

 
Create a NSMutableArray and use arrayWithArray and allobjects to create the array with unique streetNames. 
 

 

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