Description of NSDictionary - why are some key names with quotes?

Question

I used a simple NSLog for a dictionary:

NSLog(@"dict %@", dictionary);

the result was:

...
"first_name" = Peter;
gender = male;
id = 1171548848;
"last_name" = Lapisu;
...

Why are some keywords in quotation marks and some not?

+6

Peter Lapisu Jul 18 '12 at 9:33

1 answer

Apurv · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-18T09:37:32+0000

If a string contains characters other than letters + numbers, it will be enclosed in quotation marks.

This is the main methodology of the descriptionfunction.