Subj : String memory Allocation
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : M. Finch
Date : Sun Oct 03 2004 10:33 am

I'm still using char* and char mystring[stringsize] for strings....yes, I
know.  Its hard to change when you get old.

I'm very confused about how memory is allocated for the char*.  I'm looking
at the example in BCC 5.02 of the strtok function. In the example, the
declare:
    char input[16] = "abc,d";
    char *p;

    p = strtok(input, ",");

My question is how or where is memory allocated for the retuned string?
    If it is allocated in the function, how does one know that?
    After a bazillion calls to this function can it actually burn up all of
the memory available?
    How do you release this memory if it is being used?

I hope this is an appropriate place to ask this fundamental question.

Thanks In advance

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