netbsd man page for ustrdup

ustrdup(3alleg4)						  Allegro manual						  ustrdup(3alleg4)

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(3alleg4), uconvert(3alleg4), ustrsize(3alleg4), ustrsizez(3alleg4), exconfig(3alleg4)

Allegro 							   version 4.4.2						  ustrdup(3alleg4)