Hi All,
Thanks so much to Micheal, Volker, and esp. to Ken for the pointer/object refresher. I think my mistake came from thinking that NSString's initWithString method did memory allocation as well, and would create a new object in one swell foop. ;-) From my own trials and failures, and from what you all are saying - this is definitely not the case. > However, why are you attempting to init another object, at > all? The expression [[files objectAtIndex:i] > stringByStandardizingPath] returns a pointer to a string > object, already. There's a pretty good chance that you > can just make use of that string object directly. If > you need to keep it around, you could retain it and then > release it later. This is the approach I tried, and it seems to satisfy my requirement of having the file name available internally to other routines. I have now encountered other problems further downstream in my pipeline, but c'est la vie ... Again, thanks all - very, very much! cheers vinai _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com