Objective-C “if” statements not retaining

Question

I know the title of this question is a bit confusing, but here it goes anyway:

I\'m creating an NSString after an if statement but it just doesn\'t seem

Answer 1

It's not a problem of retaining, but one of scope of your declarations: a declaration within braces has a lexical scope that terminates at the closing brace -- that declaration's just not visible outside of the block! So just move your declaration before the block and have only the initialization within the block, i.e.:

NSString *pwd;
if ([[password stringValue] isEqualToString:@""]) {
    pwd = [[NSString alloc]initWithString:@"password"];
}
else {
    pwd = [[NSString alloc]initWithFormat:@"%@", [password stringValue]];
}