Re: g_strstrip question.

[Harring Figueiredo <harringf yahoo com>]

--- Brett Nash <nash nash nu> wrote:
> >   If so, how do I free the whole string so that I do not get memory leaks ?
>
>         If you have some string str1 which you need to free...
>
>         char *str1;
>         char *oldstr;
>
>         /* Replace this with however str1 is allocated */
>         str1 = g_strdup("Some random string");
>         
>         /* Save a copy */
>         oldstr = str1;
>         
>         str1 = g_strstrip(str1);
>         ...
>
>         g_free(oldstr); /* str1 is now an invalid pointer */
>         str1 = oldstr = NULL; /* sanity */
>         
>         Regards,
>         nash
>
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  This makes more sense -- oldptr has info on how many bytes to free up, while
the newptr only navigates the bytes comprising the string.

 I have changed the code to do that.

 Thanks for the reply and help.

Harring.

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