Grouping of Custom Objects in Objective-C

Question

I have and array of custom objects of Person Class

Person : NSObject{
    NSString *firstName;
    NSString *lastName; 
    NSString *age;
}

NSMutableArray          


        

Answer 1

Checkout this answers it is very similar to what you want

https://stackoverflow.com/a/15375756/1190861

The code in your case will be as the following:

NSMutableDictionary *result = [NSMutableDictionary new];

NSArray *distinctNames;
distinctNames = [personsArray valueForKeyPath:@"@distinctUnionOfObjects.firstName"];
for (NSString *name in distinctNames) {
    NSPredicate predicate = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"firstName = %@", name]; 
    NSArray *persons = [personsArray filteredArrayUsingPredicate:predicate];
    [result setObject:persons forKey:name];
}

NSLog(@"%@", result);