title: casting a NSString to char problem
body: <p>i want to casting my NSString to a constant char 
  the code is shown below :</p>
  
  <pre><code>NSString *date = @"12/9/2009";
  char datechar = [date UTF8String]
  
  NSLog(@"%@",datechar);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>however it return the warning 
  assignment makes integer from pointer without a cast
  and cannot print the char properly,can somebody tell me what is the problem</p>