ustrdup(3)

✨ NAME ✨

Okay bestie, meet ustrdup(3) — the Allegro manual's little string-duplicating icon. It's literally in the Allegro game programming library, and it does exactly what it says: duplicates a string. No cap. 💖

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <allegro.h>

char *ustrdup(const char *src)

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so this function copies the null-terminated string src into a newly allocated area of memory — effectively duplicating it, like a clone but for chars. ✨ iconic ✨

Example, because seeing it is believing:

          void manipulate_string(const char *input_string)
          {
             char *temp_buffer = ustrdup(input_string);
             /* Now we can modify temp_buffer */
             ...

👑 RETURN VALUE 👑

It returns the newly allocated string, bestie. But listen: this memory must be freed by the caller — that's you, so don't ghost it. 🫶 It returns NULL if it cannot allocate space for the duplicated string. Periodt. 💅

💅 SEE ALSO 💅

• _ustrdup(3)
• uconvert(3)
• ustrsize(3)
• ustrsizez(3)
• exconfig(3)

Allegro version 4.4.3, and that's the footer tea. The date didn't show up, but the vibes are timeless. Bye bestie! 🎀