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@(#)strdup.3 5.1 (Berkeley) 06/22/90

C 7 strdup - save a copy of a string

#include <string.h>

char *
strdup(const char *str);

Strdup allocates sufficient memory for a copy of the string str , does the copy, and returns a pointer to it. The pointer may subsequently be used as an argument to the function free (3).

Strdup returns NULL if unable to allocate the necessary memory.

malloc(3)