PS> Hi Bo! :-)

Hi Pascal

 PS>> Keep care that your strings are always 0-terminated, otherwise this
 PS>> will run off the end of the string in strlen().

 BS> Yes the extra byte isn't nessersary after I did think of.

 PS> What I meant is that it is better to use/code something 
 PS> like strndup(). The input string could miss a \0 
 PS> character itself, in which case strdup() goes off the 
 PS> end of the allocated memory of the string.

Well the point was to make strdup, if it's not existing, I really doubt
that strndup would exist.

 BS> I get in a NULL terminated string:
 BS> H e l l o   W o r l d  \0   <- text + x
 BS> 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11   <- x
 BS> strlen will return 11. So there will be space for \0.

 PS> No, strlen will return 10.

Yes that's why we need a extra one! :)

Bo


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