NSComparisonResult misbehaving - ios

Question

my application is comparing strings of requests sent to a function, like -(void)sendSearchRequest:(NSString *)request sport:(NSString *)sport location:(NSString *)location. I'm setting the request to 'Kevin', the sport to 'Baseball' and the location to 'Wellston'.
Then, I'm comparing it against an object whose request is 'Kevin', sport is 'Basketball', and location is 'Wellston'. The sport should return false, but it isn't. Whats going on?
for (Athlete *athlete in self.athletes) {
NSComparisonResult result = [[athlete name] compare:request options:(NSCaseInsensitiveSearch|NSDiacriticInsensitiveSearch) range:NSMakeRange(0, [request length])];
NSComparisonResult sportCompare = [[athlete sport] compare:sport options:(NSCaseInsensitiveSearch|NSDiacriticInsensitiveSearch) range:NSMakeRange(0, [sport length])];
NSComparisonResult locationCompare = [location compare:self.cityName options:(NSCaseInsensitiveSearch|NSDiacriticInsensitiveSearch) range:NSMakeRange(0, [self.cityName length])];
NSLog(#"Location: %#", location);
NSLog(#"Name: %#", request);
NSLog(#"Sport: %#", sport);
if (result == NSOrderedSame && sportCompare == NSOrderedSame && locationCompare == NSOrderedSame) {
[self.filteredArray addObject:athlete];
}
}
Notes:
* I have to take account for user error. These variables are being passed from a UITextField, so if a user enters 'Wellston, OK' but the object's city is 'Wellston', it won't work

Answer 1

If you want to know whether two strings are the same, why are you using NSComparisonResult? That makes no sense at all. It is for sorting. Just use isEqualToString: - that's what it's for.
Or for more a more sophisticated notion of equality, you can implement an anchored substring search. You can make that case-insensitive and diacritic-insensitive. Thus you can determine whether one string starts with another, for example.