myInt = [intNumber integerValue];

[John Shirley]

Hi

Just wanted to ask a question on this

I understand that this line intNumber = [NSNumber numberWithInteger: 100];  assigns 100 which is an interger to the intNumber, but I am not too sure of this next part

myInt = [intNumber integerValue];

I know that its basically saying that myInt is equal to intNumber, but what does the next part do and mean "intergerValue".  why do you not just use myInt = intNumber;

Thanks

[skochan]

intNumber is an NSNumber object that is created and set to the integer value 100 by sending the numberWithInteger: message to the NSNumber class.   Just like you need to send the numerator method to a Fraction object to get the value of its numerator, so must you send the integerValue message to an NSNumber object to get the integer value stored in that object.   It's not directly accessible in the manner you described.

Cheers,

Steve Kochan

[John Shirley]

Sorry to come back to this again. 

So why do you have to have the myInt = [intNumber intgerValue]; only in the // integer value part of the code and not in the other sections like // long value  etc

Apologies if I am asking an obvious question