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NSPredicate that is the equivalent of SQL's LIKE

I'm looking for a way to use NSPredicate to set a LIKE condition to fetch objects. In addition to that, an OR would be useful as well. I'm trying to do something where if a user searches "James" I can write an NSPredicate that will do the equivalent of:

select * from users where firstname LIKE '%James%' OR lastname LIKE '%James%';
Solution 
  • NSString *_mySearchKey = @"James";
NSPredicate *_myPredicate = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"(firstname CONTAINS[cd] %@) OR (lastname CONTAINS[cd] %@)", _mySearchKey, _mySearchKey];