Return a newly allocated null‐terminated copy of string.

Synopsis

Declared in <bdlb_string.h>

static
char*
copy(
    char const* string,
    bslma::Allocator* basicAllocator);

Description

Create a null‐terminated copy of the specified string, using the specified basicAllocator to supply memory, and return the address of the newly‐created modifiable string. The string that is returned is owned by the caller. The behavior is undefined unless bsl::strlen(string) <= INT_MAX and basicAllocator is non‐null.

Return Value

address of the newly allocated copy

Parameters

Name

Description

string

null‐terminated string to copy

basicAllocator

allocator used to supply memory

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