Quote from Forum Archives on September 12, 2012, 3:19 pm

Posted by: fbcocoa.bw <fbcocoa.bw@...>

Brian wrote:

Hi Guys( I’m squeezing in some programming time this morning while things are quiet ),

My efforts to accomplish the subject in some elegant fashion have so far failed. The basic scenario is I capture a row from a table view and use the data in that row to create a dictionary ( and the keys used to make it are the same keys used in the dictionaries of the target array ----i.e. the array where a deletion is desired ). When I display the contents of 'dict' and ’testItem' in the debugger, the keys and values are identical(AFAICT). I don’t want to resort to writing a large predicate and doing the search that way since what I’m doing seems simple. Once I locate the index of the dict within the CFMutableArray, I want to remove it. I’ve tried other methods like 'removeObject:' but they also fail. I’m probably overlooking something obvious. Thanks for any ideas. Brian S.

        // get the row data from the tableview

        NSMutableDictionary *tblViewItem = [vehicleMaintArray objectAtIndex:row];

        

        // create a dict using keys for gVehicleHistoryArrayRef ( a CFMutableArrayRef so has to be cast )

        NSDictionary *dict = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:

                              [tblViewItem objectForKey:ColVehicleIdentifier],kMakeModelNameKey,        // string

                              [tblViewItem objectForKey:ColProviderIdentifier],kProviderNameKey,        // string

                              [tblViewItem objectForKey:ColTaskIdentifier],kServiceTaskNameKey,         // string

                              [tblViewItem objectForKey:ColMileageIdentifier],kServiceMileageKey,          // CF/NSNumber

                              [tblViewItem objectForKey:ColDateIdentifier],kServiceDateKey,      // CF/NSDate

                              [tblViewItem objectForKey:ColCostIdentifier],kServiceCostKey,      // string

                              nil];

       

        // search for dict in gVehicleHistoryArrayRef( an array of dicts )

        

        for ( NSDictionary *testItem in (NSMutableArray *)gVehicleHistoryArrayRef )

        {

            if ( [testItem isEqualToDictionary:dict] )

                  {

                     NSLog(@"found it %ld", foundIdx); 

                  }

            foundIdx++;

        }

Have you tried  removeObjectAtIndex: ?

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