16 NSString
NSString is another class like NSDate. Instances of NSString hold character strings. Objective-C developers use NSString instances to hold and manipulate text in their programs.
Creating instances of NSString
In code, you can create an instance of NSString like this:
NSString *lament = @"Why me!?";
Notice that there is no explicit message sent to the NSString class to create the instance. The @"..." is Objective-C shorthand for creating an NSString object with the given character string.
This shorthand is known as literal syntax. When you use it, we say that you are creating a literal instance of NSString, or more commonly, an NSString literal.
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