Re: string pointer

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Hello ©koda,

>does allocate_string("string") copy string or does it just return pointer
>to sequence and is because of that fast?

It returns a memory address of the first character in memory ('s').
It DOES "copy" the string and poke it to memory I think but if you
pass it a literal (like your example) the original sequence is
freed from memory as soon as allocate_string () returns.

Lewis Townsend
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