Placement of the asterisk in Objective-C

Question

I have just begun learning Objective-C, coming from a VB .Net and C# .Net background. I understand pointer usage, but in Objective-C examples I see the asterisk placed in s

Answer 1

the * works the same way as it does in standard C.

this is a nice primer on putting the * in different places and what it does: http://boredzo.org/pointers/