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From: Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net>
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Subject: Re: Returning a string from C
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 08:41:53 +0200
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Date: 2015-07-23T08:41:53+02:00
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Le mercredi 22 juillet 2015 =C3=A0 19:20 -0700, NiGHTS a =C3=A9crit :
> I am having some difficulty with returning a string from a C=20
> function.
>=20
> Say I have the following C function:
>=20
>     void Return_Hello (char *inout_Test_String ) {
>         strcpy( inout_Test_String, "Hello World" );
>     }

I would probably also pass the string length here and use strlcpy
instead to avoid any memory corruption.

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