Getting Top 10 Highest Numbers From Array?

Question

I am having a bit of a issue. I have an NSMutableDictionary with 10 NSMutableArrays in it. Each array has somewhere between 0-10 numbers which could each be any integer, e.g. 12

Answer 1

It seems as if the data structure you want to end up with is an array of objects, where each object is functionally similar to an "index path" except that it's composed of a string (key) and a value (offset).

Assuming that the actual search for highest numbers isn't in question, then I'd suggest creating one of these objects whenever you find a candidate number so that, once the top ten are found, the objects can be used as back-pointers to the numbers' source locations.