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copied!<p>You aren't showing the code that actually obtains the data object, nor are you showing any code related to an NSString.</p> <p>Are you just assigning a string (<code>producedData</code>) to your <code>myData</code> variable? That won't create a data object; for one thing, it wouldn't know what encoding to use to encode the string's characters into bytes, and more importantly, copying a pointer from one variable to another (which is what <code>myData = producedData</code> does—the variables do not contain the objects themselves, only pointers to them) does not change anything about what the pointer points to. The object will remain a string, even though you told the compiler that <code>myData</code> would point to a data object. The compiler should be warning you about this; you should heed and fix those warnings.</p> <p><code>myData</code> definitely is not a data object; if it were, its description of itself would be a hex dump. It is either a string or a dictionary.</p> <p>The output you showed matches the syntax that an NSDictionary uses to describe itself. On the other hand, the object could be a string containing such a description. (This latter case is what you're expecting.)</p> <p>If you have a dictionary: You're done! The object is already parsed.<br> If you have a string: Send it a <code>propertyList</code> message, which will parse the string as a property list and return whatever value is represented in it, which, in this case, will be a dictionary.</p>

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