How to Fetch the Urdu language Words from plist? - iphone

Question

I have a plist which contain urdu language Words and also have English language words.as below screenshot
Now my Code is to fetch data is given Below
- (void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated {
[super viewWillAppear:animated];
[words removeAllObjects];
[means removeAllObjects];
NSString *path = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:
#"urdutoeng" ofType:#"plist"];
NSMutableArray *array2 = [[NSMutableArray alloc] initWithContentsOfFile:path];
for (int i=0; i<[array2 count]; i++) {
NSDictionary* dict = [array2 objectAtIndex:i];
[words addObject:[dict valueForKey:#"Urdu"]];
[means addObject:[dict valueForKey:#"English"]];
[Types addObject:[dict valueForKey:#"Nature"]];
}
}
This part of code work fine for me as my below screen shot
Now problem is when i search any words through searchbar it return Empty result beacuse my search array contain words in Different Formate my code for search array is
listOfItems = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
NSDictionary *countriesToLiveInDict = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObject:words forKey:#"Countries"];
[listOfItems addObject:countriesToLiveInDict];
copyListOfItems = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
My Searchbar code is
#pragma mark Content Filtering
- (void)filterContentForSearchText:(NSString*)searchText
{
[copyListOfItems removeAllObjects];
NSLog(#"listOfItemsdata :%#",listOfItems);
for (NSString *cellLabel in [[listOfItems objectAtIndex:0] objectForKey:#"Countries"])
{
NSComparisonResult result = [cellLabel compare:searchText options: (NSCaseInsensitiveSearch|NSDiacriticInsensitiveSearch) range:NSMakeRange(0, [searchText length])];
if (result == NSOrderedSame)
{
[copyListOfItems addObject:cellLabel];
}
}
}
#pragma mark UISearchDisplayController Delegate Methods
- (BOOL)searchDisplayController:(UISearchDisplayController *)controller shouldReloadTableForSearchString:(NSString *)searchString
{
NSLog(#"searchstring :%#",searchString);
[self filterContentForSearchText:searchString];
return YES;
}
When i Nslog the listOfItems Array it show text some thing like
NSLog(#"listOfItemsdata :%#",listOfItems);
listOfItemsdata :(
{
Countries = (
" \U0627\U0628",
" \U0627\U0628 \U0628\U06be\U06cc",
" \U0627\U0628 \U062a\U0628",
" \U0627\U0628 \U062a\U06a9",
" \U0627\U0628 \U062c\U0628 \U06a9\U06c1",
" \U0627\U0628 \U0633\U06d2",
Its show that my data goes in some other formate thats why searchbar is unable to search it.
Any help or Suggestion will be appriated.Thanks

Answer 1

All the Urdu entries in the plist have a space as first character. This is the reason that searching always produced an empty list.
As a workaround, one can remove leading and trailing spaces from the entries before comparing:
for (NSString *cellLabel in [[listOfItems objectAtIndex:0] objectForKey:#"Countries"])
{
NSString *trimmed = [cellLabel stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet:[NSCharacterSet whitespaceCharacterSet]];
NSComparisonResult result = [trimmed compare:searchText options: (NSCaseInsensitiveSearch|NSDiacriticInsensitiveSearch) range:NSMakeRange(0, [searchText length])];
if (result == NSOrderedSame)
{
[copyListOfItems addObject:cellLabel];
}
}