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iOS Object-Oriented Objective-C Memory, Arrays and Loops, Oh My! Alloc and Init

Vivian Mak
Vivian Mak
1,943 Points

Create an NSString variable called 'myRide' and allocate and init it, but don't give it a value yet.

NSString *myRide = [[NSString alloc]initWithString:]];

Please let me know what i have done wrong. Thanks

variable_assignment.mm
NSMutableDictionary *carDict = [[NSMutableDictionary alloc ] initWithObjectsAndKeys: @"Honda", @"Make", @"Accord", @"Model", nil];
NSString *myRide = [[NSString alloc]initWithString:]];

4 Answers

Very close:

NSString *myRide = [[NSString alloc]init];

The editor just asked to have myRide allocated and inited.

Vivian Mak
Vivian Mak
1,943 Points

Thanks for your help

NSString *myRide =[[NSString alloc] init];

The above compiles ok, but Challenge Task 2 of 3 still throws error..

Bummer! Did you remember to include 'nil' ?

Hello I still have an error even though i wrote this code NSString *myRide = [[NSString alloc]init]; help thanks