Re: ????stringWithContentsOfFile????

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Tuesday, June 17, 2003, at 12:52  pm, reuss wrote:

> What is wroing with that?
> NSString *aLongText=[[NSString alloc]stringWithContentsOfFile:
> @"/path/aFile"];
>
> I got:
> Uncaught exception NSInvalidArgumentException, reason: 
> GSPlaceholderString(instance) does not recognize 
> stringWithContentsOfFile:

[NSString alloc] creates an instance of the NSString class, and 
+stringWithContentsOfFile: is not a method that instances of NSString 
implement ...
it's a method that the *class* NSString implements, and it performs the 
creation of a new instance itsself.