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Subject: Re: How to count the occurance of a character in a string?
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Timo Schlüßler wrote:
> 
... snip ...
>
> char *strdup(const char *s)
> {
>    size_t len = strlen (s) + 1;
>    char *result = (char*) malloc (len);
>    if (result == (char*) 0)
>      return (char*) 0;
>    return (char*) memcpy (result, s, len);
> }
> 
> (This is the code for the real strdup() function.)

I hope not.  Every one of those casts is unnecessary, and only
serves to conceal errors, such as failure to #include <stdlib.h>. 
Besides which, there is no strdup routine in standard C.  POSIX and
Linux may be different.  It is available under DJGPP.

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