Switching which NSArray to generate by selecting a button?

If I were working on this problem I would probably create a new model (or put this in one of your current models that controls the arrays) with a method that accepts a NSArray as the argument and returns an array. This way you can always work with the "same" array (currentArray in the following example) because the data in it is being switched to whichever array you choose. The following code is by no means the full answer to your question but hopefully it will be a good starting point. Try a few things, if you still can't get it, come on back and we can give you some more help. For some reason trying to add labels is breaking the code blocks. The top block is part of your header and the bottom block is part of your implementation.

 @property (strong, nonatomic) NSArray *currentArray;

- (NSArray *) switchArray:(NSArray *) toNewArray;

- (NSArray *) switchArray:(NSArray *) toNewArray {
   _currentArray = toNewArray;
   return _currentArray;
}

Cheers for that Patrick - will report back on how it goes!

I'm really sorry Patrick, but I couldn't seem to work out how to integrate the code above into my Segmented Control. I've tried running through a lot of tutorials, but I can't seem to combine any to get to the solution. I've attached my code below, basically what I'm trying to do is once certain buttons on the segmented control are pressed, the makePrediction method needs to generate from the array selected by the segmented control. Really stuck on this one!

-(IBAction)switchcontrol:(id)sender; {
if (predControl.selectedSegmentIndex == 0){

        }
if (predControl.selectedSegmentIndex == 1){

}

if (predControl.selectedSegmentIndex == 2){

}

- (void) makePrediction {
NSUInteger index = arc4random_uniform(self.predictionArray.count);
self.predictionLabel.text = [self.predictionArray objectAtIndex:index];

[UIView animateWithDuration:1.0 animations:^{
    self.predictionLabel.alpha = 1.0;
}];

Is predictionArray a property? If so I would add the code I posted earlier to your viewcontroller.h and .m (normally you shouldn't do this because it combines business logic with your view but you can refactor it into a model later.) then all you need to do is add a line in each of your if blocks self.predictionArray = [self.predictionArray switchArray:<name of your array>];

This should work if I'm not mistaken. Today has been a long day already though so there may be an error in there. I'll double check the logic a little later when my brain starts working again.

Basically you just need to write a method that will change the value of predictionArray within your if blocks. That way you don't need to edit any of the code in your makePrediction method.

Thanks so much for your help Patrick - just added the code to the header and implementation, and also added the above code into the if blocks - however I'm now getting an error saying :

no visible @interface for nsarray declares the selector 'switchArray'