Question

I want to add NSArray with NSString values in it. I’m almost sure that I can use #define for it, but I don’t understand how to access and initialize that declared variables.
For example i have:

#define my_definition 0;

And i know how to access this 0 value. But how about NSString inside NSArray?

I have a definitions.h file. In there i have access from any my class.

Answer 1

Whoa… what are you trying to do here?

#define is a preprocessor macro. The preprocessor knows nothing about Objective-C (or C for that matter… it’s just a glorified text replacement engine), and Objective-C knows nothing about the preprocessor.

You almost certainly don’t want a #define for anything other than maybe numeric values (e.g. ints) or an NSString. (In practice, you will usually see extern NSString * ... in lieu of #define for a variety of reasons, too.)

If you need access to a particular NSArray in an object, you can create an ivar that you populate in -init or the like. If other classes need access to the array, make it a @property or just declare a (public) method.

Maybe I’m misunderstanding what you are trying to do?