ustrdup.3alleg

Langue: en

Version: version 4.2.2 (debian - 07/07/09)

Section: 3 (Bibliothèques de fonctions)

NAME

ustrdup - Duplicates a string. Allegro game programming library.

SYNOPSIS

#include <allegro.h>

char *ustrdup(const char *src)

DESCRIPTION

This functions copies the null-terminated string `src' into a newly allocated area of memory, effectively duplicating it. Example:
    void manipulate_string(const char *input_string)
    {
       char *temp_buffer = ustrdup(input_string);
       /* Now we can modify temp_buffer */
       ...
 

RETURN VALUE

Returns the newly allocated string. This memory must be freed by the caller. Returns NULL if it cannot allocate space for the duplicated string.

SEE ALSO

_ustrdup(3alleg), uconvert(3alleg), ustrsize(3alleg), ustrsizez(3alleg), exconfig(3alleg)