objective c - Sort NSArray of date strings or objects

Question

I have an NSArray that contains date strings (i.e. NSString) like this: "Thu, 21 May 09 19:10:09 -0700"

I need to sort the NSArray by date. I thought about converting the date string to an NSDate object first, but got stuck there on how to sort by the NSDate object.

Thanks.

Answer 1

If I have an NSMutableArray of objects with a field "beginDate" of type NSDate I am using an NSSortDescriptor as below:

NSSortDescriptor *sortDescriptor = [[NSSortDescriptor alloc] initWithKey:@"beginDate" ascending:TRUE];
[myMutableArray sortUsingDescriptors:[NSArray arrayWithObject:sortDescriptor]];
[sortDescriptor release];