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Re: Newbe Question: Searching Address Book
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Re: Newbe Question: Searching Address Book


  • Subject: Re: Newbe Question: Searching Address Book
  • From: Brad Bumgarner <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 21:02:39 -0600

Yup, I know that code. In fact I've been able to create a complex query where I can search for first and/or last name. The problem I run into is when I enter the person's first and a space before entering the last name. Since there are no spaces in the db between the first and last names, no entries are found. For now, I'm just going to have to stick with entering the first name. I need to get this moving forward. Once I've got a better handle on things THEN I'll come back to it.

Thanks
Brad Bumgarner, CTA



On May 2, 2006, at 7:40 PM, Nelson Santos wrote:

Hi Brad,

In the link that Andrew provided, you can find the following sample snippet:



ABAddressBook *AB = [ABAddressBook sharedAddressBook];

ABSearchElement *nameIsSmith =
    [ABPerson searchElementForProperty:kABLastNameProperty
                                 label:nil
                                   key:nil
                                 value:@"Smith"
                            comparison:kABEqualCaseInsensitive];

NSArray *peopleFound = [AB recordsMatchingSearchElement:nameIsSmith];



I haven't tried this myself, but it seems pretty straight forward. The first line just fetches a pointer to the address book. The second statement sets up a search criteria object (by last name, value of Smith, case insensitive). The last statement actually executes the search using the criteria returning an array of all the address book entries found.

See if you can work with this and let us know if you are still having trouble.

Nelson

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