strdup

Creates a duplicate of a string and returns a pointer to the new copy.

Library:LibC

Classification:POSIX

Service:Characters and Strings

Syntax

  #include <string.h> 
   
  char *strdup (
     const char   *src);

Parameters

src: (IN) Points to the string to be copied.

Return Values

If successful, returns a pointer to the new copy of the string; otherwise, returns a NULL pointer and sets errno to the following:

Decimal	Constant	Description
5	ENOMEM	Sufficient storage space is not available.

Remarks

The memory for the new string is obtained by using the malloc function and can be freed using the free function.

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