How to return variable from this method? - objective-c

Question

I need to return the longitude and latitude from this method. This is from the locationManager code. When I log the lat, longt they give the correct values.
What I have been unable to do is to work out you to export/return the variables out of this method. How should I go about changing it?
- (void)locationManager:(CLLocationManager *)manager didUpdateToLocation:(CLLocation *)newLocation fromLocation:(CLLocation *)oldLocation {
int degrees = newLocation.coordinate.latitude;
double decimal = fabs(newLocation.coordinate.latitude - degrees);
int minutes = decimal * 60;
double seconds = decimal * 3600 - minutes * 60;
self.lat = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"%d° %d' %1.4f\"", degrees, minutes, seconds];
NSLog(#"Current Latitude : %#",self.lat);
degrees = newLocation.coordinate.longitude;
decimal = fabs(newLocation.coordinate.longitude - degrees);
minutes = decimal * 60;
seconds = decimal * 3600 - minutes * 60;
self.longt = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"%d° %d' %1.4f\"", degrees, minutes, seconds];
NSLog(#"Current Longitude : %#",self.longt);
[manager stopUpdatingLocation];
}

Answer 1

You don't need to return the location from that method because you're not going to call that method yourself -- the Location Manager will call that method to give you an updated location. What you should do is to store the new location so that your code can use it later. Usually, that just means updating your instance variables, but you can do whatever you want with the location -- update you data model, write it out to a text file, etc. Storing it in ivars makes it easy to access the location whenever you need it in your code.