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ft_strnew.c
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/* ************************************************************************** */
/* */
/* ::: :::::::: */
/* ft_strnew.c :+: :+: :+: */
/* +:+ +:+ +:+ */
/* By: pbie <marvin@42.fr> +#+ +:+ +#+ */
/* +#+#+#+#+#+ +#+ */
/* Created: 2015/11/27 15:17:42 by pbie #+# #+# */
/* Updated: 2015/12/02 22:38:36 by pbie ### ########.fr */
/* */
/* ************************************************************************** */
#include "libft.h"
/*This function allocates memory and returns a 'fresh' string that ends with
*'\0'. Each character in the string is set to '\0' if the allocation fails the
function returns NULL. To do this we simply use our ft_memalloc function with
the size parameter given to our function. We make sure cast it as a char string
because that is what we want to return and we have to add + 1 to our size_t
to compensate for the terminating '\0'. NOTE: We are able to set each character
in the string to '\0' because our ft_memalloc uses our ft_bzero function*/
char *ft_strnew(size_t size)
{
return ((char *)ft_memalloc(size + 1));
}