Re: str_dup, CREATE(), et al

From: Akuma/Chris Baggett/DOOMer (doomer@BAYOU.COM)
Date: 03/16/98


Thank you! You finally understand :-P

well, I did think of that, but I was wondering (seeing as
how the strings are str_dup'd) is there something I could do
about that?
like free_char_strings() or some such?

or should I just right one and hope that it works?

just wondering :-)

thanks.

Code On
Akuma the Raging Coder

At 10:07 PM 3/16/98 -0500, you wrote:
>On Mon, 16 Mar 1998, Akuma/Chris Baggett/DOOMer wrote:
>
>>I mentioned in my original post that I was using ASCII pfiles.
>>so I no longer use fwrite/seek/etc.
>
>Ah ok, in that case, the best thing to do is this:
>
>struct char_data chst;
>
>for (...) {
>  load_char(&chst);
>  ...doo stuff...
>}
>
>Then you don't have to worry about free/malloc.
>
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