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iOS Objective-C for Swift Developers Basic Types, Structures and Syntax Strings and Numerical Variables

Posted by vicentelee
vicentelee
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a "char" and its meaning

First, I've never heard of the car pronunciation so that took a little getting used to. Second, I was always under the impression that a char was just a character, so when the teacher states "passing a char" to the NSString method to me actually means passing just one character and not a sequence of characters. So my question is, what is "a char"?