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From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
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Subject: Re: What is strdup() supposed to do? Does anyone have a copy?
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(Written for ANSI C.)

#include <stdlib.h>

/* strdup -- duplicate string in malloc'd memory */

char *strdup(char *str)
{
	char *new, *ptr;

	if (! str)
		return(0);

	new = (char *) malloc(strlen(str) + 1);
	if (! new)
		return(0);

	for (ptr = new; *ptr++ = *str++; ) /* empty loop body */;

	return(new);
}

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