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From: janssen@parc.xerox.com (Bill Janssen)
Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew
Subject: copying strings ; standard utility libraries
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Date: 5 Sep 90 22:41:06 GMT
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I've found a particular library routine very useful, and I'm wondering

1)  if it is in some Andrew library already

2)  if it were to be added to some site-specific library -- just what
the procedure should be for site-specific utility subroutines.

Here's the routines I'd like to have as "standard" utility routines:

    char *copyString (s)
      char *s;
    {
      char *new;

      if (s == NULL)
        return(NULL);
      new = (char *) malloc (strlen(s) + 1);
      strcpy (new, s);
      return (new);
    }

    void freeString (s)
      char *s;
    {
      if (s != NULL)
        free(s);
    }

freeString, of course, would be better done as a macro.

Bill