NSPredicate with Multiple Conditions

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Brandon picture Brandon · Sep 3, 2014 · Viewed 9.2k times · Source

I am trying to create a NSPredicate with multiple conditions. I've found several solutions, but none of them appear to be working with my method. The best looking one I've found is below.

This is my single predicate method, and it works just fine:

NSPredicate *predicate = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"name contains[c] %@", 
searchText];
filteredBusinesses = [businesses filteredArrayUsingPredicate:predicate];

Here is my edited version with multiple conditions. I'm not sure whats going wrong. Any ideas?

NSPredicate *p1 = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"name contains[c] %@", searchText];
NSPredicate *p2 = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"businessArea contains[c] %@", 
searchText];

NSPredicate *predicate = [NSCompoundPredicate andPredicateWithSubpredicates:@[p1, p2]];
filteredBusinesses = [businesses filteredArrayUsingPredicate:predicate];

Answer

Nikunj Agola picture Nikunj Agola · Sep 3, 2014

You can try this 

NSPredicate *predicate = [NSCompoundPredicate orPredicateWithSubpredicates:@[p1, p2]];

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