String help!

[David Herron, NPR Lover]

In article <8257 at watarts.UUCP> upen at watarts.UUCP (Ue-Li Pen) writes:
> Is it allowed & portable to use the construct:
> char* foo(){
> return("foobar");    
> }
> This would hopefully return a pointer to the string "foobar"..

Yes it does....However it is a pointer to a STATIC data area.
So it wouldn't be a good idea to change the contents of the string.
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