Yes. You can either use key-value coding: [[self valueForKey:myString] release];
or you can use the ObjC runtime functions to do exactly that.
#import <objc/runtime.h>
id value = nil;
object_getInstanceVariable(self, [myStr UTF8String], &value); // if your ivar
is auto synthesized from a property, you’d need to prepend an underscore.
[value release];
No need to do that when you have Key-Value Coding, however. Just use that.
On Jun 18, 2014, at 11:23 AM, Trygve Inda <cocoa...@xericdesign.com> wrote:
> If I have a class:
>
> @interface MyClass : NSObject
> {
> NSNumber* myNumber;
> }
> @property (nonatomic, retain) NSNumber* myNumber;
>
>
> And in the class implementation I have:
>
> -(void)doSomething
> {
> // it could get this string from anywhere, not always a constant
> NSString* myString = @"myNumber";
>
> ???
> }
>
>
> Is there a way to access the myNumber property and send it a message knowing
> only it's name (contained in myString)?
>
> So rather than doing:
>
> [myNumber release];
>
> I could do something like:
>
> [getProperty(myString) release];
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Trygve
>
>
>
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