[gabrielf]

Hi, I'm probably just to tired to program but I can't get return to work. I have a class for storing pages of text (in a NSMutableArray) with the method getPage int)pageNumber I want that method to return a NSString. How do I do that?

- (NSString)getPage int)pageNumber

or should I have return type (NSString *) or (id)? And what should I write at the end of the method?

return [myArray objectAtIndex ageNumber -1];

or should I cast the returnvalue?

return (NSString *)[myArray objectAtIndex ageNumber -1];

Any help would be great. Maybe I'm just confused and mixing id's and pointers I don't know, must sleep...

/Gabbe

[int69h]

I'm pretty new to objc myself, but try this.

- (NSString *)getPage: (int)pageNumber
{
return [[[myArray objectAtIndex: (pageNumber -1)] copy] autorelease];
}

This returns a pointer to a copy of the NSString stored in the NSArray myArray. If you wanted a pointer to the actual object stored in the array, leave of the copy and autorelease bit.

I didn't bother to try compiling that but the following is a similar piece of code I wrote last night that works fine.

m_hostname is of type NSString.

- (NSString *)getHostname
{
/*
Returns the hostname of the server associated with this instance.
ARGUMENTS:
NONE
RETURN:
A pointer to a copy of the hostname associated with this instance.
*/
return [[m_hostname copy] autorelease];
}

Terry

[int69h]

UBB did horrible things to my formatting. Sorry about that.