ustrdup

Section: Allegro manual (3)
Updated: version 4.2.2
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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(3), uconvert(3), ustrsize(3), ustrsizez(3), exconfig(3)