functions defined as a string

I know that you can define a function as a "char *", but its been a couple of years, and I forget the specific syntax.

I am calling a pair of C functions from a 4GL (an old IBM DB query language) program, passing four strings to the C function, and having the C function return a String.

so far all I can think of is

char *getGeo(char c_city[50])
{
}


I've been using this anoying old language for a couple months, and it has robbed me of my C/C++ knowledge; it's a diabolic IBM scheme to rid the world of OO programming. Really, I swear it is.

Is the question how to do it in C, or how to do it in 4GL?

In C:

Code:

---

char *myfunction( char array[50], char *stringy )
{
  return stringy; //valid
  return array; //valid
}

---

You can pass a "string" as an array, or as a character pointer.
You can return a character pointer.

Quzah.

Well, you can't actually declare a function as _anything_... you are declaring what the function will return onto the stack.


char *foo(void);


easy enough...