crash while removing objects from NSMutableArray

iphone ios objective-c nsmutablearray removeall
Ravi Kiran picture Ravi Kiran · May 10, 2013 · Viewed 10.6k times · Source

In my iphone project (ARC enabled) i have a nsmuatble array which contains some 5 managed objects (which are retrieved from core data ) and in some scenario i need to remove all the objects from that nsmutablearray

i have used following methods to remove objects but its crashing in both the cases with the crash log -[__NSArrayI removeObject:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0xa391640

if (surveys && [surveys count]>0)
        {

            [surveys removeAllObjects];
            surveys = [[NSMutableArray alloc]init];
        }

and also i tried

if (surveys && [surveys count]>0)
        {
            for(Survey *obj_Survey in surveys)
            {
                [surveys removeObject:obj_Survey];
            }

            surveys = [[NSMutableArray alloc]init];
        }

can any one tell me how do i empty that array,, any suggestions would be appreciated, thanx in advance

Answer

devluv picture devluv · May 10, 2013

The answer is very simple.

For First case.
Check the part where you have initialized your array, and check if somewhere through your code, if you have assigned an NSArray to your NSMutableArray object.

For second case.
You cannot remove objects from the array while you are enumerating through it. This will result in a crash saying array has mutated while enumerating

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