How to return an NSMutableArray from an NSSet
I'm able to put the contents of an NSSet into an NSMutableArray like this: NSMutableArray *array = [set allObjects]; The compiler complains though because [set allObjects] returns an NSArray not an NSMutableArray . How should this be fixed? Since -allObjects returns an array, you can create a mutable version with: NSMutableArray *array = [NSMutableArray arrayWithArray:[set allObjects]]; Or, alternatively, if you want to handle the object ownership: NSMutableArray *array = [[set allObjects] mutableCopy]; I resolved crashing by using NSMutableArray's method 'addObjectsFromArray' to assign all