On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Murat Konar <mu...@pixar.com> wrote: > > On Aug 18, 2010, at 11:06 AM, John C. Randolph wrote: > >> -stringByReplacingCharactersInString: creates and returns a new string, >> which is autoreleased. > > Always?
Yes, always. > I recall running into a problem that was caused by > -stringByReplacingCharactersInString: (or a method like it) simply returning > self if no substitution occurred. Possibly, but even in that case it would still have to "return [[self retain] autorelease];" in order to fulfill its end of the memory management contract. sherm-- -- Cocoa programming in Perl: http://camelbones.sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ 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