Sort array in ascending order and remove duplicate values in objective- c

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Itaws

I have a horizontally and vertically scrollable table. I get the data for the header and first column from the web service(json). I want to sort the data in ascending order and remove duplicate data from both header and the first column. For removing duplicate values I used the following code:

-(void) requestFinished: (ASIHTTPRequest *) request
{
    NSString *theJSON = [request responseString];

    SBJsonParser *parser = [[SBJsonParser alloc] init];

    NSMutableArray *jsonDictionary = [parser objectWithString:theJSON error:nil];

    headData = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
    NSMutableArray *head = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];

    leftTableData = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
    NSMutableArray *left = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];

    rightTableData = [[NSMutableArray alloc]init];

    for (NSMutableArray *dictionary in jsonDictionary)
    {
        Model *model = [[Model alloc]init];

        model.cid = [[dictionary valueForKey:@"cid"]intValue];
        model.iid = [[dictionary valueForKey:@"iid"]intValue];
        model.yr = [[dictionary valueForKey:@"yr"]intValue];
        model.val = [dictionary valueForKey:@"val"];

        [mainTableData addObject:model];

        [head addObject:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%ld", model.yr]];
        [left addObject:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%ld", model.iid]];
    }
    NSOrderedSet *orderedSet = [NSOrderedSet orderedSetWithArray:head];
    headData = [[orderedSet array] mutableCopy];

//    NSSet *set = [NSSet setWithArray:left];
//    NSArray *array2 = [set allObjects];
//    NSLog(@"%@", array2);

    NSOrderedSet *orderedSet1 = [NSOrderedSet orderedSetWithArray:left];
    NSMutableArray *arrLeft = [[orderedSet1 array] mutableCopy];

    //remove duplicate enteries from header array
    [leftTableData addObject:arrLeft];


    NSMutableArray *right = [[NSMutableArray alloc]init];
    for (int i = 0; i < arrLeft.count; i++)
    {
        NSMutableArray *array = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
        for (int j = 0; j < headData.count; j++)
        {
            /* NSPredicate *predicate = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"SELF.iid == %ld", [[arrLeft objectAtIndex:i] intValue]];
             NSArray *filteredArray = [mainTableData filteredArrayUsingPredicate:predicate];*/
            NSPredicate *predicate = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"SELF.iid == %ld AND SELF.yr == %ld", [[arrLeft objectAtIndex:i] intValue], [[headData objectAtIndex:j] intValue]];
            NSArray *filteredArray = [mainTableData filteredArrayUsingPredicate:predicate];

            if([filteredArray count]>0)
            {
                Model *model = [filteredArray objectAtIndex:0];
                [array addObject:model.val];
            }
        }
        [right addObject:array];
    }
    [rightTableData addObject:right];
}

How will I sort the arrays in ascending order?

Please help.

Itaws

This is what I did to sort the header data in ascending order and to remove duplicates from both header and leftmost column. Hope this will help others

NSOrderedSet *orderedSet3 = [NSOrderedSet orderedSetWithArray:head3];
headData3 = [[orderedSet3 array] mutableCopy];
[headData3 sortUsingComparator:^NSComparisonResult(NSString *str1, NSString *str2)
{
    return [str1 compare:str2 options:(NSNumericSearch)];
}];

NSOrderedSet *orderedSet4 = [NSOrderedSet orderedSetWithArray:left3];
NSMutableArray *arrLeft3 = [[orderedSet4 array] mutableCopy];

[leftTableData3 addObject:arrLeft3];

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