strdup() — Duplicate a string

Standards

Standards / Extensions	C or C++	Dependencies
XPG4.2 Single UNIX Specification, Version 3	both

#define  _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED 1
#include <string.h>

char *strdup(const char *string);

The strdup() function creates a duplicate of the string pointed to by string.

If successful, strdup() returns a pointer to a new string which is a duplicate of string.

Otherwise, strdup() returns a NULL pointer.

Note: The caller of strdup() should free the storage obtained for the string.