NSArray de Datas tipo

Question

Considere esta matriz. Ele não tem chaves, por isso não estou certo de que posso usar NSSortDescriptor. Qual seria o melhor método para classificá-los?

(
    "Thursday, July 30, 2009",
    "Monday, September 07, 2009",
    "Wednesday, September 09, 2009",
    "Friday, August 14, 2009",
    "Saturday, September 05, 2009",
    "Monday, August 10, 2009",
    "Thursday, July 23, 2009",
    "Monday, October 12, 2009",
    "Friday, October 16, 2009",
    "Monday, August 17, 2009",
    "Tuesday, October 13, 2009",
    "Wednesday, September 30, 2009",
    "Sunday, August 16, 2009",
    "Thursday, August 27, 2009",
    "Monday, August 31, 2009",
    "Saturday, August 15, 2009",
    "Thursday, August 06, 2009",
    "Saturday, September 26, 2009",
    "Tuesday, September 29, 2009",
    "Tuesday, September 15, 2009",
    "Tuesday, September 01, 2009"
)

Answer 1

Você pode usar sortedArrayUsingFunction:

Aqui está um código de exemplo.

NSInteger dateSort(id s1, id s2, void *context)
{
    NSDateFormatter* format = (NSDateFormatter*)context;
    NSDate* d1 = [format dateFromString:s1];
    NSDate* d2 = [format dateFromString:s2];

    return [d1 compare:d2];
}

...

-(void)someObjectiveCMethod
{
    NSDateFormatter* format = [[[NSDateFormatter alloc] init] autorelease];

    // Find theses format codes here:
    // http://unicode.org/reports/tr35/tr35-6.html#Date_Format_Patterns
    //
    [format setDateFormat:@"EEEE, MMMM dd, yyyy"];

    NSArray* myArray = getMyArray();
    NSArray* sortedArray = [myArray sortedArrayUsingFunction:dateSort context:format];
}

Há uma número desses tipos de métodos de classificação em NSArray. pena de olhar para aqueles para se familiarizar com eles.

Answer 2

NSArray * unsortedDates = ...;
NSArray * sortedDates = [unsortedDates sortedArrayUsingSelector:@selector(compare:)];