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

Posted by Jaeyong Kwack
Jaeyong Kwack
Courses Plus Student 2,449 Points

I am not sure how I can init while not assigning any value to an object. Please help me out.

I am not sure how I can init while not assigning any value to an object. Please help me out.

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

1 Answer

Andres Aguero
Andres Aguero
30,545 Points
Andres Aguero
Andres Aguero
30,545 Points

To allocate something means to reserve memory space and you can do it simply by adding the lines of code below. You will get into the habit of doing this more often in Arrays and Dictionaries.

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