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When I search the ABAddressBook for names of contacts, it returns matches that include job titles.

For example, let's say I've got a contact named John Smith, and he's a Technology Analyst.

If I search for ABAddressBook entries for names that contain[cd] Te, I would like to avoid seeing John's name, since Te is not a substring of "John Smith".

How do I search the ABAddressBook for a name while excluding a job title?

bryanjclark
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Your predicate to filter the array of records should be something like this: 

NSPredicate *predicate = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:
      @"record.name contains[cd] %@", string];

Make sure that record.name only contains the elements identified by

const ABPropertyID kABPersonFirstNameProperty;
const ABPropertyID kABPersonLastNameProperty;
const ABPropertyID kABPersonMiddleNameProperty;

and not 

const ABPropertyID kABPersonJobTitleProperty;
Mundi
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  • I know it's been a while but how do you get record from the ABAddressBookCopyArrayOfAllPeople array? All I can get is __NSCFType – John Lane Nov 29 '12 at 15:44
  • Something like `ABRecordRef ref = CFArrayGetValueAtIndex( allPeople, i );` – Mundi Nov 29 '12 at 17:56
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    Thanks for this. Would you mind posting a snippet? I've tried this: NSMutableArray *records = (__bridge NSMutableArray *)ABAddressBookCopyArrayOfAllPeople( addressBook ); NSPredicate * myPredicate = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"record.phoneNumber contains %@",@"123"]; try { [records filterUsingPredicate:myPredicate]; } catch (NSException *exception) { NSLog(@"%@",exception); } {} – John Lane Nov 29 '12 at 18:11