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PODouble quotes and NSPredicates
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copied!<p>I am wondering why my predicates are having double quotes around the whatDateShouldEqual and the whatDateShouldEqual2 strings? is there a way to get rid of them in the predicate? I'm getting my predicate string equaling.</p> <blockquote> <p>"whatDateShouldEqual" >= CAST(378720000.000000, "NSDate");</p> </blockquote> <p>The double quotes are messing up my predicate.</p> <pre><code>//This method calls the function - (NSArray *) getAllTasksForCurrentYearForPieChart { NSArray *yearToDatePredicates = [self getPredicateForYearToDateFunctions:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"timeSheetDate"] secondPredicateFilterAtrribute:@"timeSheetDate"]; NSArray *allTimeSheets = [self getTimeSheetsWithEmployeeId:[NSNumber numberWithInt:[[CANetworkingManager sharedCANetworkingManager].employeeId intValue]]]; NSPredicate *predicate = [yearToDatePredicates objectAtIndex:0]; [allTimeSheets filteredArrayUsingPredicate:predicate]; predicate = [yearToDatePredicates objectAtIndex:1]; [allTimeSheets filteredArrayUsingPredicate:predicate]; NSArray *uniqueTaskIds = [self getAllUniqueTaskIDsBasedOnArrayOfTimeSheets:allTimeSheets]; NSArray *uniqueTasks = [self getTasks]; predicate = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"taskID IN %@", uniqueTaskIds]; uniqueTasks = [uniqueTasks filteredArrayUsingPredicate:predicate]; return uniqueTasks; } - (NSArray *) getPredicateForYearToDateFunctions: (NSString *) whatDateShouldEqual secondPredicateFilterAtrribute: (NSString *) whatDateShouldEqual2 { // This will get the task within the time area NSDateFormatter * df = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init]; [df setDateFormat:@"yyyy MM dd"]; NSDateComponents *components = [[NSCalendar currentCalendar] components:NSDayCalendarUnit | NSMonthCalendarUnit | NSYearCalendarUnit fromDate:[NSDate date]]; NSInteger year = [components year]; NSDate *firstDayOfYear = [df dateFromString:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%d 01 01", year]]; NSDate *currentDayOfYear = [NSDate date]; NSMutableArray *holdBothPredicates = [NSMutableArray new]; [holdBothPredicates addObject:[NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"%@ >= %@", whatDateShouldEqual, firstDayOfYear]]; [holdBothPredicates addObject:[NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"%@ <= %@", whatDateShouldEqual2, currentDayOfYear]]; NSArray *turningToArray = [NSArray arrayWithArray:holdBothPredicates]; return turningToArray; } </code></pre>

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