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I have an NSString that I modify several times (eg. trim, replace occurrences of string etc.). Is it assumed that I will end up with the exact number of autoreleased strings that is equal to the number of modifications? What if I use a huge string? Is there a better solution?

AGRegex regex = [[AGRegex alloc] initWithPattern:@”\<[a-zA-Z0-9="_ /]\>” options:AGRegexCaseInsensitive]; NSString *result=[regex replaceWithString:@” “ inString:testString]; [regex release]; regex=[[AGRegex alloc] initWithPattern:@” +” options:AGRegexCaseInsensitive]; result=[regex replaceWithString:@” “ inString:result]; [regex release]; result=[result stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet:[NSCharacterSet whitespaceAndNewlineCharacterSet]];

Will this code above produce memory leaks? (I think it won’t)


It won’t. You release regex for each alloc, and everything else is autoreleased (or should be). You might want to use a temp string in line 4, rather than altering result in place, but that’s mostly a style thing. Or make result a mutable string. I think AGRegex has NSMutableString category methods.