Objective-C: Sort keys of NSDictionary based on dictionary entries

Question

OK so I know that dictionaries can\'t be sorted. But, say I have NSMutableArray *keys = [someDictionary allKeys]; Now, I want to sort those keys, based on the corre

Answer 1

Sort keys of NSDictionary based on dictionary keys

Abobe is for returning a sorted array with based on dictionary content, this is for returning an array sorted by dictionary key:

NSArray *keys = [theDictionary allKeys];
NSArray *sortedKeys = [keys sortedArrayUsingComparator:^NSComparisonResult(id a, id b) {
    return [a compare:b];
}];
NSMutableArray *sortedValues = [NSMutableArray new];
for(NSString *key in sortedKeys)
    [sortedValues addObject:[dictFilterValues objectForKey:key]];