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# discardEditing

Causes the receiver to discard any changes, restoring the previous values.

```
- (void) discardEditing;
```

## See Also

  [Cocoa Bindings Programming Topics](https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/CocoaBindings/CocoaBindings.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/10000167i)

[`- (BOOL) commitEditing;`](/documentation/ObjectiveC/NSObject-swift.class/commitEditing)

Returns whether the receiver was able to commit any pending edits.


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