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Re: Does this caution need fixed? (newb)
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Re: Does this caution need fixed? (newb)


  • Subject: Re: Does this caution need fixed? (newb)
  • From: "Sean McBride" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 17:04:05 -0400
  • Organization: Rogue Research

On 7/3/08 9:40 AM, Chris Paveglio said:

>I have a loop that gets the user's home directory, and then adds a
>string to complete the file path for several files.
>
>This line:
>theSettings = [NSHomeDirectory() stringByAppendingPathComponent:[myPrefs
>objectAtIndex:i]];
>
>gives me a caution sign when I compile

In addition to the other good comments, you should be extra extra
careful when writing file-related code: you don't want to accidently
move, copy, delete at the wrong path.  So I would add Ia test to check
for nil being returned from NSHomeDirectory().

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Sean McBride, B. Eng                 email@hidden
Rogue Research                        www.rogue-research.com
Mac Software Developer              Montréal, Québec, Canada


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