String help!

[Gregory J.E. Rawlins]

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"..

In article <929 at ukma.UUCP> david at ukma.UUCP (David Herron, NPR Lover) writes:
> 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.

In article <437 at ark.UUCP> huisjes at ark.UUCP (Michiel Huisjes) writes:
> David Herron is right, except for the fact that you are allowed to
> change the contents of the string as long as you don't change the 
> length of it!

(a confused hon-hacker writes...) Why would you want to keep a pointer to
a constant string (or at least a constant length string)??
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