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c string

if i do this

char *mystring="myst ring";

later i reassign to mystring like this

mystring="repla cewithnewstring ";

i'm not a c expert, but i suppose i need to get rid of the dynamically
assigned "mystring"? what should be done according to best practices ?
free(mystring) ?

tx

Nov 14 '05
10 1746
Jim
On Mon, 08 Nov 2004 11:36:55 +0100, slurper <sl*********@ho tmail.com>
wrote:
if((stream = fopen ("filename", "r")) != (FILE *)0) {
while((fgets(my string, 1023, stream)) != (char *)0 ) {


There's no need to do (FILE *)0 or (char *)0. Either 0 or NULL will
do fine.

Jim
Nov 14 '05 #11

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