How to sort a NSArray alphabetically?

Question

How can I sort an array filled with [UIFont familyNames] into alphabetical order?

Answer 1

A more powerful way of sorting a list of NSString to use things like NSNumericSearch :

NSArray *sortedArrayOfString = [arrayOfString sortedArrayUsingComparator:^NSComparisonResult(id obj1, id obj2) {
            return [(NSString *)obj1 compare:(NSString *)obj2 options:NSNumericSearch];
        }];

Combined with SortDescriptor, that would give something like :

NSSortDescriptor *sort = [NSSortDescriptor sortDescriptorWithKey:@"name" ascending:YES comparator:^NSComparisonResult(id obj1, id obj2) {
        return [(NSString *)obj1 compare:(NSString *)obj2 options:NSNumericSearch];
    }];
NSArray *sortedArray = [anArray sortedArrayUsingDescriptors:[NSArray arrayWithObject:sort]];