Scoping question in C

[John Vetterli]

On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, James Zhou wrote:
> I think an alternative might be the strdup() - string duplicate. But it
> brings another potential problem if the programmer forgets to explicitly
> "free" the space after the use. That is because strdup() actually allocates
> the memory space from heap to hold the copied string. :)

The advantage to the strdup approach is that you are writing your program 
to fit the data, rather than hoping that the data will fit your program.

JV
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