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macOS Casting an int to an NSString *

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macfreek57

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I'm trying to learn Cocoa and Objective-C. I've got a method described like so:

Code: 
- (NSString *)buttonClicked:(int)buttonNumber;

The function needs to return an NSString pointer. The problem is, I have an int that I need to return as the NSString. I think there are round-about ways I could do this (like make the int an NSNumber and then make that an NSString), but I'm looking for a more direct method. This seems like it would be a fairly common need as most of the Cocoa GUI components require NSStrings, so I was expecting to be able to do something like:

Code: 
NSString *returnString;
int myInt;
myInt = 54;
*returnString = @"" + myInt;
return returnString;

But that's not working. Neither is (NSString *)myInt.
Can anyone help?

Thanks
 
You cant cast an int to an NSString pointer as NSString is an object, and you use a pointer to it so you need a piece of memory allocated for it and such.

You could do this:

Code: 
NSString *intString = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%d", myInt];

or just return it:

Code: 
return [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%d", myInt];

I think that's right; I'm really tired and can barely think about Objective-C right now...
 
Hi,
I got solution for int to NSString * casting.
Now i want NSString* to int casting.
please help me as early as possible.
 
Cast really only applies in terms of primitives, but...
NSStrings respond to intValue, though in 10.5 integerValue is preferred, which returns an NSInteger rather than int.

-Lee
 
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