Searching content of different tableview

[drmortyd]

I'm new to iPhone programming. I'm trying to make an app that has a search bar when it starts and displays a few categories below it. I don't want to search the categories (all of the example code about table view searching shows how to search the contents of the current tableview). Is there a way to make the search work with a different tableview, for example, the contents of one of the categories shown below the searbar? I really appreciate your help!

[musicwind95]

The search bar will access any data that you give it. Ideally, you'd want to the search bar to be working with the data from the same class. Therefore, to have it search the contents of another table view, you'd want that data readily accessible.

Here's a site that gives a tutorial on how to implement a search bar:
Dimensions: iPhone Development: Adding Search Bar in Table View

Instead of having dataSource be a local variable, you would instead set dataSource to be the data from another view:
self.dataSource = someView.otherData;
Or, you can make a copy of that data, and reference the local copy.

Hope that helps!