UISearchController for TableView - ios

Question

This is what my Table View looks like. Each cell Strings a text from a .txt
Search Filter works fine. But When I select one of the results e.g. "How" it prints the the Content of "Hello" instead.
I'm thinking this is probably because "Hello" is programmed as the first String so it will always be the result of the first cell when clicked. I am needing help with figuring out how the search results are linked to it's own content. if that makes any sense?
Here's the code below. The code reads from .txt file swell as search the text file. the results when clicked on do not match.
import UIKit
class title_ViewController: UITableViewController, UISearchResultsUpdating {
var SongTitle = [String]()
var SongLyrics = [LText]()
var filteredSongs = [String]()
var resultSearchController = UISearchController()
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
self.resultSearchController = UISearchController(searchResultsController: nil)
self.resultSearchController.searchResultsUpdater = self
self.resultSearchController.dimsBackgroundDuringPresentation = false
self.resultSearchController.searchBar.sizeToFit()
self.tableView.tableHeaderView = self.resultSearchController.searchBar
self.tableView.reloadData()
if let path = NSBundle.mainBundle().pathForResource("DataBase", ofType: "txt"){
do {
let stringFromFile = try String(contentsOfFile:path, encoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding)
var Title: [String] = stringFromFile.componentsSeparatedByString("#")
Title.removeAtIndex(0)
//Seperates the Title from the Lyrics
var t1 = Array(Title[0].componentsSeparatedByString("^"))
t1.removeAtIndex(0)
SongTitle = Title
SongLyrics = [LText(LyricsText: t1)]
}catch{
print(error)
}
}
}
override func didReceiveMemoryWarning() {
super.didReceiveMemoryWarning()
// Dispose of any resources that can be recreated.
}
override func tableView(tableView: UITableView, numberOfRowsInSection section: Int) -> Int {
if self.resultSearchController.active{
return self.filteredSongs.count
}else{
return self.SongTitle.count
}
}
override func tableView(tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {
let Cell: AnyObject = self.tableView.dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier("Cell", forIndexPath: indexPath)
Cell.textLabel?!.text = SongTitle[indexPath.row]
if self.resultSearchController.active{
Cell.textLabel?!.text = self.filteredSongs[indexPath.row]
}else{
Cell.textLabel?!.text = self.SongTitle[indexPath.row]
}
return Cell as! UITableViewCell
}
func updateSearchResultsForSearchController(searchController: UISearchController) {
self.filteredSongs.removeAll(keepCapacity: false)
let searchPredicate = NSPredicate(format: "SELF CONTAINS[c]%#", searchController.searchBar.text!)
let array = (self.SongTitle as NSArray).filteredArrayUsingPredicate(searchPredicate)
self.filteredSongs = array as! [String]
self.tableView.reloadData()
}
override func prepareForSegue(segue: UIStoryboardSegue, sender: AnyObject?) {
let indexPath: NSIndexPath = self.tableView.indexPathForSelectedRow!
let DestViewController = segue.destinationViewController as! ViewController
DestViewController.LyricString = SongTitle[indexPath.row]
}
}
any help is welcomed, thanks in advance.

Answer 1

The problem lies in your prepareForSegue. You need to amend it to test whether the searchController is active. If so, you should use filteredSongs to determine which song to pass to the destination VC, rather than SongTitle:
override func prepareForSegue(segue: UIStoryboardSegue, sender: AnyObject?) {
let indexPath: NSIndexPath = self.tableView.indexPathForSelectedRow!
let DestViewController = segue.destinationViewController as! ViewController
if self.resultSearchController.active {
DestViewController.LyricString = self.filteredSongs[indexPath.row]
}else{
DestViewController.LyricString = self.SongTitle[indexPath.row]
}
}
(As an aside, it is convention that variable names should start with a lowercase letter - songTitle not SongTitle, etc.)

Answer 2

You can perform segue manually in didSelectRowAtIndexPath by searching position of selected String from array, then you can get correct position -
Example -
func tableView(tableView: UITableView, didDeselectRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) {
let Cell: AnyObject = self.tableView.dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier("Cell", forIndexPath: indexPath)
let str: String= Cell.textLabel.text
// now find str in array and then get position
int pos = getPositionOfStringInArray(str)
// now perform segue for pos
//code...
}