strdup(3) Library Functions Manual strdup(3) NAME strdup, strndup, strdupa, strndupa - duplicate a string LIBRARY Standard C library (libc, -lc) SYNOPSIS #include char *strdup(const char *s); char *strndup(const char s[.n], size_t n); char *strdupa(const char *s); char *strndupa(const char s[.n], size_t n); Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)): strdup(): _XOPEN_SOURCE >= 500 || /* Since glibc 2.12: */ _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200809L || /* glibc <= 2.19: */ _BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE strndup(): Since glibc 2.10: _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200809L Before glibc 2.10: _GNU_SOURCE strdupa(), strndupa(): _GNU_SOURCE DESCRIPTION The strdup() function returns a pointer to a new string which is a duplicate of the string s. Memory for the new string is obtained with malloc(3), and can be freed with free(3). The strndup() function is similar, but copies at most n bytes. If s is longer than n, only n bytes are copied, and a terminating null byte ('\0') is added. strdupa() and strndupa() are similar, but use alloca(3) to allocate the buffer. RETURN VALUE On success, the strdup() function returns a pointer to the duplicated string. It returns NULL if insufficient memory was available, with errno set to indicate the error. ERRORS ENOMEM Insufficient memory available to allocate duplicate string. ATTRIBUTES For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7). +--------------------------------------------+---------------+---------+ |Interface | Attribute | Value | +--------------------------------------------+---------------+---------+ |strdup (), strndup (), strdupa (), strndupa | Thread safety | MT-Safe | |() | | | +--------------------------------------------+---------------+---------+ STANDARDS strdup() strndup() POSIX.1-2008. strdupa() strndupa() GNU. HISTORY strdup() SVr4, 4.3BSD-Reno, POSIX.1-2001. strndup() POSIX.1-2008. strdupa() strndupa() GNU. SEE ALSO alloca(3), calloc(3), free(3), malloc(3), realloc(3), string(3), wcsdup(3) Linux man-pages 6.9.1 2024-06-15 strdup(3)