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From: bright@Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c++
Subject: Re: Proposed addition to string library: strnew
Message-ID: <2699@dataio.Data-IO.COM>
Date: 10 Sep 90 18:22:22 GMT
References: <FOX.90Sep7130228@devo.research.att.com>
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In article <FOX.90Sep7130228@devo.research.att.com> fox@research.att.com (David Fox) writes:
<I propose the following function be added to the standard string.h:
<
<inline char *
<strnew(const char *s) 
<{
<  return s ? strcpy(new char[strlen(s)+1], s) : 0;
<}

What's the matter with strdup()? It's not ANSI C, but it's in common
usage among MS-DOS and OS/2 compilers.