How to find UIButton by title - objective-c

Question

I am having a UIView that has button in it. The buttons are not in some array.
I would like to look at the whole UIView (using for loop) and look for a button by its title, and later remove it.
- (void)removeButtonByTitle:(NSString*)name
{
for (buttons in view) {
// find the button with the name "name" and remove it from the view
}
}
I couldn't find a way to do that without saving their names/pointers to an array.

Answer 1

It's generally preferable to use the tag property for this. Then you can simply find the button with the viewWithTag: method and don't have to adjust your code if you decide to change the button title or localize your app.
If you really need to find a button by its title, you could do it like this:
NSString *buttonTitle = #"name";
UIButton *buttonWithTitle = nil;
for (UIButton *button in view.subviews) {
if (![button isKindOfClass:[UIButton class]]) continue;
if ([[button currentTitle] isEqualToString:buttonTitle]) {
buttonWithTitle = button;
break;
}
}
//do something with the button...

Answer 2

Well you could do it like this:
for (UIView *v in view.subviews)
if ([v isKindOfClass:[UIButton class]] && [[(UIButton *)v currentTitle] isEqualToString:#""])
//remove
But I must say that doesn't sound like a robust solution, your button title could change during localization or it may be different for different states.

Answer 3

Do that:
- (void)removeButtonByTitle:(NSString *)name
{
for (UIView *tempView in self.subviews)
{
if ([tempView isKindOfClass:[UIButton class]]) // make sure it's actually a UIButton
{
UIButton *button = tempView;
if ([button.titleLabel.text isEqualToString:name]) // compare the title
{
[button removeFromSuperview];
}
}
}
}

Answer 4

Check this:
-(void)removeButtonWithTitle:(NSString*)titleString {
NSArray *subViews = [self.view subviews];
[subViews enumerateObjectsUsingBlock:^(id obj, NSUInteger idx, BOOL *stop) {
if([obj isKindOfClass:[UIView class]]) {
NSArray *subViewsArray = [(UIView*)obj subviews];
for (int i=0; i<[subViewsArray count]; i++) {
id subViewObj = [subViewsArray objectAtIndex:i];
if([subViewObj isKindOfClass:[UIButton class]] && [[(UIButton*)subViewObj titleLabel].text isEqualToString:titleString]) {
[subViewObj removeFromSuperview];
*stop = YES;
break;
}
}
}
}];
}