Associative Array - where's my error?

[bearophile]

Jesse Phillips:

> I think this just hides the issue. To fix the issue you would need byLine to return a string, since user code my still save and modify the returned value and store it in an AA.

I don't agree. If you perform a cast of the dup-ed char array to a string you will not have problems. The main problem is the missed duplication (and the bad usage of casts in general, for people coming from C/C++).

Bye,
bearophile