OSString


Abstract: A container class for managing strings.

OSString is a container class for managing arrays of characters. Strings come in two varieties, mutable and imutable. An imutable OSString string is one which was created or intialized with the "NoCopy" functions, all other strings are mutable. When modifying an imutable string, the function called to perform the action will fail.

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