-stringByReplacingCharactersInString: creates and returns a new string, which is autoreleased. You're getting the bus errors when something tries to access that string after it's been released.
-jcr On Aug 17, 2010, at 2:03 PM, James Miller wrote: > Hello. > > I'm a little new to Objective-C / Cocoa so please don't shoot me, but I've > been looking around for a few hours and can't seem to figure out what I'm > doing wrong on my own and could use a second/third/fourth set of eyes. > > I have NSTimer that runs several times a second against an NSString called > level, which is 190 characters long and previously initialized from: > > // NSString *level = [[NSString alloc] > // initWithContentsOfFile:path > // encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding > // error:&error]; > > > During the timer call, the level NSString is modified by the following line > of code: > > level=[level stringByReplacingCharactersInRange:NSMakeRange(5,1) > withString:@" "]; > > This operation appears to succeed as I print it via NSLog and it looks fine > and the length checks out, but the next time through the NSTimer I get a bus > error and the application dies. > > If I comment out the line above, the code continues to run fine. Am I doing > something wrong in terms of how I am using this method or assigning it back > to the NSString? > > > I appreciate the help! > > --Jim_______________________________________________ > > 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/jcr%40mac.com > > This email sent to j...@mac.com _______________________________________________ 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
