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WCSDUP (3)

duplicate a wide-character string

SYNOPSIS

    #include <wchar.h>
      wchar_t *wcsdup (const wchar_t * s );  
    

DESCRIPTION

    The wcsdup function is the wide-character equivalent of the strdup function. It allocates and returns a new wide-character string whose initial contents is a duplicate of the wide-character string pointed to by s.

    Memory for the new wide-character string is obtained with malloc(3), and can be freed with free(3).

RETURN VALUE

    The wcsdup function returns a pointer to the new wide-character string, or NULL if sufficient memory was not available.

CONFORMING TO

    This function is a GNU extension.

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