Checking if two loops returns a value - objective-c

Question

I want to check if the two for loops returns a match, if they do nothing happens but if they don't I want a message to be printed out saying something like "A match could not be found". Something like this:
if (loop1 == 0 && loop2 == 0) {
NSLog(#"A match could not be found, please check your spelling");
};
My question is therefore, how can I describe the loops so that I can check the value they give?
Here are the loops:
for (SMADoc *aSearch in docs) {
if ([search isEqualToString:[aSearch leadAuthour]]) {
//Open the file that is represented by UrlToDoc for that specific object
[[NSWorkspace sharedWorkspace] openFile:[aSearch urlToDoc]];
}
}
} else {
//The string starts with a number and should be converted to an int and then the array of the numbers should be searched through
int number = atoi(searchC);
NSNumber *sNumber = [NSNumber numberWithInt:number];
for (SMADoc *nSearch in docs) {
if ([sNumber isEqualToNumber:[nSearch docNumber]]) {
[[NSWorkspace sharedWorkspace] openFile:[nSearch urlToDoc]];
}
}
}
Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

As your custom class is KVC compliant you could perform the check simultaneously with NSPredicate without any loop.
The expression means: if docs contains an object whose docNumber is number or leadAuthour is search, skip the error message
NSPredicate *predicate = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:#"docNumber == %i || leadAuthour == %#", number, search];
if [[docs filteredArrayUsingPredicate:predicate] count] == 0 {
NSLog(#"A match could not be found, please check your spelling");
}

Answer 2

I solved it! I started by declaring two ints, one for each loop, and then checked if a match was NOT found for each iteration, i.e:
![search isEqualToString:[aSearch leadAuthour]]
If this was true, the int was increased by one. Then, after the array was iterated through, if the int is equal to the number of objects in the array, I then knew that none of the objects matched and I could print out the "A match could not be found, please check your spelling"-message. This is how it looked like in code:
int i = 0;
int j = 0;
for (SMADoc *aSearch in docs) {
if ([search isEqualToString:[aSearch leadAuthour]]) {
//Open the file that is represented by UrlToDoc for that specific object
[[NSWorkspace sharedWorkspace] openFile:[aSearch urlToDoc]];
}
if(![search isEqualToString:[aSearch leadAuthour]]){
i++;
}
if(i == [docs count]) {
NSLog(#"A match could not be found, please check your spelling");
}
}
} else {
//The string starts with a number and should be converted to an int and then the array of the numbers should be searched through
int number = atoi(searchC);
NSNumber *sNumber = [NSNumber numberWithInt:number];
for (SMADoc *nSearch in docs) {
if ([sNumber isEqualToNumber:[nSearch docNumber]]) {
[[NSWorkspace sharedWorkspace] openFile:[nSearch urlToDoc]];
}
if(![search isEqualToString:[aSearch docNumber]]){
j++;
}
if(j == [docs count]) {
NSLog(#"A match could not be found, please check your spelling");
}
}
I don't know if it's allowed to answer your own question, but my intention with this was to provide an answer for someone who might be asking the same question.