Return string from a function in C

[Samarth]

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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 ..

[kelfro]

 # include <stdio.h>

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

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

[Katty]

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.

[Zecho]

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

#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);
}