According to Cocoa/ObjC memory-management, if you get an object (reference) via "alloc","new",any object that contains "copy", and any object you send [<object> retain] to, is yours - it becomes your responsibility to call [<your object> release] on it when you're done. Ditto for properties like

@property (nonatomic,retain) <data type>myProp;

where "retain" is specified.

But what about literal NSStrings?

I have a method in my view controller class.

- (void)setWebView:(SomeAppDelegate *)appDelegate
{
NSString *htmlString;

htmlString = @"<div style=\"font-family;Helvetica,Arial, sans-serif; font-size=48pt;\"align=\"center\">"; htmlString = [htmlString stringByAppendingString:appDelegate.savedNumber];
htmlString = [htmlString stringByAppendingString:@"</span>"];
[webView loadHTMLString:htmlString baseURL:nil];
// [htmlString release]; // <- is this necessary?
}

For reference, SomeAppDelegate.h declares "savedNumber" as a property like the above. i.e.

@interface SomeAppDelegate : NSObject <UIApplicationDelegate>
{
NSString *savedNumber;
}

@property (nonatomic,retain) NSString *savedNumber;
@end

and is synthesized in SomeAppDelegate.m:
@implementation SomeAppDelegate

@synthesize savedNumber
...
@end

Does the setWebView: method need an [htmlString retain] somewhere? Does [NSString stringByAppendingString] do anything funny I should know about?

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