---
title: hasPointerRepresentation
framework: swift
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: swift/staticstring/haspointerrepresentation
---

# hasPointerRepresentation

A Boolean value that indicates whether the static string stores a pointer to a null-terminated sequence of UTF-8 code units.

## Declaration

```swift
var hasPointerRepresentation: Bool { get }
```

## Discussion

Discussion If hasPointerRepresentation is false, the static string stores a single Unicode scalar value.