As Dave DeLong said, you can use:
NSPredicate *predicate = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"UPC ==[c] %@ OR ItemID ==[c] %@", aUPCCode,aUPCCode];
Edit:
Use ==[c] instead of ==[cd] or you get accents too (abcd == àbcd).
As Dave DeLong said, you can use:
NSPredicate *predicate = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"UPC ==[c] %@ OR ItemID ==[c] %@", aUPCCode,aUPCCode];
Edit:
Use ==[c] instead of ==[cd] or you get accents too (abcd == àbcd).