Question on Objective C

[Steve Sisak]

At 6:46 PM -0500 11/7/08, Owen Hartnett wrote:
>I think everyone subscribes to this list, but nobody uses it -- until now.
>
>I have an Objective C question and I'll try it here.
>
>It's pretty simple - I have an NSString * - I want to parse it and
>return two NSString *'s as the result of my parse.
>
>It seems I can't do something like this:
>
>- (NSString *) locationFromString:(NSString *)inputString
>locString1:(NSString *) &string1 locString2:(NSString *) &string2;
>
>
>Am I missing something?  I don't see anyway to send a parameter as a
>reference - is it supported?

Obj-C is C99 (not C++), so the convention would be to use (NSString 
**) -- or fill in an array of results.

Note that C99 has a lot of C++ features (inline functions, // comments, etc.)

If you're in a .mm file, you might be able to use (NSString *&), but 
that's mixing metaphors a bit.

-Steve
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