I believe you need the diacritic insensitive option: 'someProperty BEGINSWITH[d] "?"'
Look up NSComparisonPredicate options in the documentation for more discussion. As for what the 'w' means, it's Spotlight specific. "The Comparison is word based, and also detects transitions from lower-case to upper-case." http://developer.apple.com/Mac/library/documentation/Carbon/Conceptual/SpotlightQuery/Concepts/QueryFormat.html -- Jim http://nukethemfromorbit.com On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 1:30 AM, Gerriet M. Denkmann <gerr...@mdenkmann.de> wrote: > > This works. i.e. returns {0,1}: > NSRange r2 = [ @"???" rangeOfString: @"?" options: NSAnchoredSearch | > NSLiteralSearch ]; > (without NSLiteralSearch it returns NSNotFound). > > but an NSPredicate with: "someProperty BEGINSWITH "?" " does NOT find ???". > (the NSPredicate is to be used with -[NSArrayController setFilterPredicate:] > to query Core Data). > > So: is there some string_option equivalent to NSLiteralSearch? > > And a related question: where are the available string_options defined? > The Predicate Programming Guide has: > string_options ::= c | d | cd > > but also an example with "w": > ((* = "FooBar*"wcd)) || (kMDItemTextContent = "FooBar*"cd)) > > 10.6.2 > > Kind regards, > > Gerriet. > > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/jturner.lists%40gmail.com > > This email sent to jturner.li...@gmail.com > _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com