Re: Does this caution need fixed? (newb)

FROM : Sean McBride
DATE : Thu Jul 03 23:04:05 2008

On 7/3/08 9:40 AM, Chris Paveglio said:

>I have a loop that gets the user's home directory, and then adds a
>string to complete the file path for several files.
>
>This line:
>theSettings = [NSHomeDirectory() stringByAppendingPathComponent:[myPrefs
>objectAtIndex:i]];
>
>gives me a caution sign when I compile


In addition to the other good comments, you should be extra extra
careful when writing file-related code: you don't want to accidently
move, copy, delete at the wrong path.  So I would add Ia test to check
for nil being returned from NSHomeDirectory().

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