NSString instance reports its class as NSCFString

Question

My objective here is really simple -- I\'m trying to set an NSString to some test data, then return the class, which should be NSString. Here\'s my

Answer 1

NSString is really a container class for different types of string objects. Generally an NSString constructor does return an object that is actually of type NSCFString, which is a thin wrapper around the Core Foundation CFString struct.