Re: Memory management of NSStrings

FROM : Shawn Erickson
DATE : Sun Apr 10 18:02:40 2005

On Apr 10, 2005, at 4:43 AM, John James wrote:

> I am still in my 1st year of learning so bear with me.
>
> I finally got this part of my program working, but I am not sure why.
> I have a method which creates a small report in a NSString* which is
> later 
> shown in a window.  
>
> I do something like this:
>
>     NSString* rpt =  @"#session( \r";
>
> and then multiple lines of the sort:
>
>     rpt = [rpt stringByAppendingString : objectString];
> where objectString is built up in a similar way to make an report
> record.
>
> finally I return rpt.


Others have pointed you to the docs on memory management in Cocoa...

I want to point out that the above may be better done by using an
NSMutableString if you are building a string in steps and parts.

-Shawn