On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Murat Konar <mu...@pixar.com> wrote:
>
> On Aug 18, 2010, at 11:06 AM, John C. Randolph wrote:
>
>> -stringByReplacingCharactersInString: creates and returns a new string,
>> which is autoreleased.
>
> Always?

Yes, always.

> I recall running into a problem that was caused by
> -stringByReplacingCharactersInString: (or a method like it) simply returning
> self if no substitution occurred.

Possibly, but even in that case it would still have to "return [[self
retain] autorelease];" in order to fulfill its end of the memory
management contract.

sherm--

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