how to assign string array values to varible

Question

hi i am new to iphone. what i am doing is sorting the labels for that i am assigning the string array to temporary string variable as follows:

NSString *tmp = [labels objectAtIndex:j-1];
labels[j-1]=labels[j];
labels[j] = tm;

but it shows error at last line that is incomplete types in assignment how can i solve this?
thank you

Answer 1

Labels is not a C array, it's and Objective-C array, so you need to do

NSMutableArray *labels2 = [[NSMutableArray alloc] initWithArray:labels];
NSString *tmp = [labels objectAtIndex:j-1];
[labels2 insertObject:[labels objectAtIndex:j] atIndex:j-1];
[labels2 insertObject:tm atIndex:j];