A couple questions from my feeble mind about Objective-C

[Whovian]

Okay. A few questions.

Is there an escape character similar to '%s' which uses an NSString instead of a C-style string, so I could do something like NSLog(@"Hello, %N!",/*Insert NSString* here*/)?

I tried the following code:

#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>

@interface Greeter : NSObject
{
    char name[256];
}
-(void)setname : (char[256])newname;
-(void)greet;
-(char[256])getname;
@end

@implementation Greeter
-(void)setname : (char[256])newname
{
    for (int i = 0;i<256;i++)
    {
        name[i]=newname[i];
    }
}
-(void)greet
{
    printf("Hello, %s!",name);
}
-(char[256])getname
{
    return name;
}
@end

It's not happy with my return name; expression. My mistake's probably really obvious, but what is it? Maybe I should have it return char* instead?

 

[Future Bruno]

The issue with this code is that you are trying to return an array (char[256]) from the getname method. Arrays cannot be returned as values in Objective-C, so you need to change your return type to char*. The following should work:-(char*)getname { return name;}