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So I have an NSArray "myArray" with NSNumber s and NSString s. I need them in another UIView so i go like this: - (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath { DetailViewController *details = [[DetailViewController alloc] initWithNibName:@"DetailView" bundle:nil]; details.subjectText = [[myArray objectAtIndex:indexPath.row] objectForKey:@"subject"]; The subjectText works. But how can I get the NSNumber s out of it? (I actually need them as strings...) I would convert a NSString out of a NSNumber like this: NSString *blah = [NSNumber intValue] . But

A 101 question Let's say i'm making database of cars and each car object is defined as: #import <UIKit/UIKit.h> @interface Car:NSObject{ NSString *name; } @property(nonatomic, retain) NSString *name; Why is it @property(nonatomic, retain) NSString *name; and not @property(nonatomic, assign) NSString *name; ? I understand that assign will not increment the reference counter as retain will do. But why use retain , since name is a member of the todo object the scope of it is to itself. No other external function will modify it either. Chuck There's no such thing as the "scope of an object" in

NSString *myString = @"A B C D E F G"; I want to remove the spaces, so the new string would be "ABCDEFG". Tom Jefferys You could use: NSString *stringWithoutSpaces = [myString stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@" " withString:@""]; If you want to support more than one space at a time, or support any whitespace, you can do this: NSString* noSpaces = [[myString componentsSeparatedByCharactersInSet:[NSCharacterSet whitespaceCharacterSet]] componentsJoinedByString:@""]; Taken from NSString stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:withString: Returns a new string in which all occurrences of a target