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From: david@ukma.UUCP (David Herron, NPR Lover)
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Subject: Re: String help!
Message-ID: <929@ukma.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 20-Feb-85 17:51:04 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 20 17:51:04 1985
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In article <8257@watarts.UUCP> upen@watarts.UUCP (Ue-Li Pen) writes:
> Is it allowed & portable to use the construct:
> char* foo(){
> return("foobar");    
> }
> This would hopefully return a pointer to the string "foobar"..

Yes it does....However it is a pointer to a STATIC data area.
So it wouldn't be a good idea to change the contents of the string.
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