Thread: function: strdup()

How many books do you have that don't mention strdup()?

I can imagine a few... but let me explain what my problem is.

I don't know what it does! (other than duplicate a string using malloc) I guess I could search my header files and see where it's actually prototyped, but still? Was it just added to the ANSI standard?

If you know, or want to shed your wisdom on this little lovely I'm all ears.

Humbly.

http://www.mkssoftware.com/docs/man3/strdup.3.asp

strdup is not an ANSI-C function.

Follow the link suggested by shtarker, and check the conformance section of the manual page, and compare that with say strcpy

Thanks for the responses. I understand it now.