Return string from a function in C

I am a beginner in C and I want to know how declare function which returns a string. I have tried to create but normally it gives me a segmentation stack run time error. Thank you to those who would explain to me ..

Code:

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# include <stdio.h>

 char * function () (
        char * str = "test";
        return str;
 )

 int main () (
        printf ( "% s \ n", function ());
        return 0;
 )

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In the C API, certain functions return a string as a parameter. Each of these functions uses the same interface for retrieving a string. msStringProperty() is a pointer to a buffer provided by the application into which XMS copies the characters in the string.

To return string from a function try this program :
ex:

Code:

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#include

char * cfun(void);
main ()
{
printf("%s\n",cfun());
}

char * cfun(void)
{
char *name;
name = (char *)malloc(20*sizeof(char));
printf("Enter name\n");
scanf("%s",nme);
return(nme);
}

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