Deep copying an NSArray

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As the Apple documentation about deep copies explicitly states:

If you only need a one-level-deep copy:

NSMutableArray *newArray = [[NSMutableArray alloc] 
                             initWithArray:oldArray copyItems:YES];

The above code creates a new array whose members are shallow copies of the members of the old array.

Note that if you need to deeply copy an entire nested data structure — what the linked Apple docs call a true deep copy — then this approach will not suffice. Please see the other answers here for that.

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