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iOS Object-Oriented Objective-C Memory, Arrays and Loops, Oh My! Alloc and Init

Posted by Jiaming Zhang
Jiaming Zhang
10,170 Points

How to alloc and init a NSString w/o giving it any value?

How is this possible?

variable_assignment.mm 
NSMutableDictionary *carDict = [[NSMutableDictionary alloc] initWithObjectsAndKeys: @"Honda", @"Make", @"Accord", @"Model", nil];

NSString *myRide;

1 Answer

Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,712 Points
Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,712 Points

Hi there,

You just want to call alloc and init within the square brackets on NSString and assign that to an NSString object called myRide.

I don't want to just type the code - does the above help? Shout if not and I'll do better!

Steve.