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What is “->” in Objective C?

what is the "->" in objective-c? And what is it used for?

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It's the same as in C. Objective-C is a strict superset of C, so it inherits all the syntax. In C:

x->y

is the same as:

(*x).y

The syntax *x dereferences the pointer x, and . accesses a property on the result of the dereferencing.

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-> is for Accessing instance variables (Pointers)

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    `->` is very very rarely used to access instance variables. Can be done, but no one does it that way. `->` is most often seen in the traditional C role. – bbum Jan 01 '11 at 20:34