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He doesn't need to if he just assigns an address, which is what he's doing. He may not want to create physical copies of the string.

Peter - Reinstate Monica
– Peter - Reinstate Monica

2014-04-02 14:48:10 +00:00
Commented Apr 2, 2014 at 14:48
@PeterSchneider You are correct. He does not need to in his specific case.

gookman
– gookman

2014-04-02 15:20:10 +00:00
Commented Apr 2, 2014 at 15:20
@user3489828 Remember to free the memory allocated by strdup with free.

gookman
– gookman

2014-04-03 12:30:15 +00:00
Commented Apr 3, 2014 at 12:30

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