Sorting NSString values as if NSInteger using NSSortDescriptor

Question

I have created a sort descriptor to sort a plist response coming from my server. This works well with sort key having values upto 9. With more than 10 items I see abrupt res

Answer 1

[list sortUsingSelector:@selector(localizedStandardCompare:)]; will sort the list in a "human" way (so "11" will come last, not between "1" and "2"). But if you really do want to treat these strings as numbers, you should make them number first!