Re: NSPredicate: To be, or not to be

FROM : Gerriet M. Denkmann
DATE : Mon Jun 02 04:10:35 2008

On 2 Jun 2008, at 00:20, <email_removed> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 9:17 AM, Gerriet M. Denkmann
> <<email_removed>> wrote:

>> When I use an NSMetadataQuery with the NSPredicate 
>> <kMDItemTextContent LIKE
>> "To be, or not to be;"> it seems to find all documents which 
>> contain these
>> words in any order; and as they are kind of common, it finds 23363 
>> files.
>>
>> Not quite what I intended.
>> Actually I am looking for those documents which contain this 
>> string exactly
>> as written (e.g. Shakespeare/Plays/Hamlet/3.1.rtf ).

>
> I believe you want "contains", not "like".


Following your suggestion, I changed my predicateFormat to:
@"%@ contains kMDItemTextContent" which translates into:
<kMDItemTextContent IN "To be, or not to be"> and behaves more or 
less exactly like LIKE.

So again: how to search kMDItemTextContent for a string containing 
spaces? (10.4.11).

Kind regards,

Gerriet