Hide empty cells in UITableView

Question

I have a searchable tableview, but would like to only display the number of cells that are returned once a user starts a search. For instance, if a user types in a charecter

Answer 1

Set the tableFooterView to some dummy view ([[UIView new] autorelease] will work fine). This prompts the UITableView to show the footer (which will have zero size) in place of the empty 'cells'.