Is there a strdup equivalent in icu unicode?

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The question is self-explanatory. I'm using the C API.

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 23 '11 at 10:41

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No, but it's easy to implement. It's just:

UChar *u_strdup(UChar *in) {
    uint32_t len = u_strlen(in) + 1;
    UChar *result = malloc(sizeof(UChar) * len);
    u_memcpy(result, in, len);
    return result;
}

answered Mar 23 '11 at 10:41

dan_waterworth

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@Steve-o: `memdup` is not a standard function that I've ever heard of. – Thanatos Mar 23 '11 at 15:19
Oops, ok looks like I was confusing with [`g_memdup`](http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/unstable/glib-Memory-Allocation.html#g-memdup) in glib. – Steve-o Mar 24 '11 at 03:12

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Oct 20 '12 at 23:13

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Check out _strdup, _wcsdup, _mbsdup. _wcsdup and _mbsdup are wide and multi byte versions of strdup.

edited Oct 20 '12 at 23:13

Rob Kielty

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answered May 09 '12 at 16:24

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 25 '11 at 04:24

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There isn't, but you could request one and file a bug.

However, ICU typically doesn't return memory the caller owns- it uses its own wrapped malloc/free functions and defines a custom deleter on objects. So, this would be quite different.

answered Mar 25 '11 at 04:24

Steven R. Loomis

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Is there a strdup equivalent in icu unicode?

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