Objective

Implement a function that allocates a fresh buffer on the heap and copies a string into it, byte by byte, including the null terminator.

Steps

• Accept a single null-terminated string src as the parameter.
• Compute the length of src to determine how many bytes to allocate.
• Call malloc to reserve exactly length + 1 bytes.
• Copy every character from src into the new buffer, then append '\0'.
• Return the pointer to the newly allocated string.
• Return NULL if malloc fails.

Objective

Implement a function that allocates a fresh buffer on the heap and copies a string into it, byte by byte, including the null terminator.

Steps

• Accept a single null-terminated string src as the parameter.
• Compute the length of src to determine how many bytes to allocate.
• Call malloc to reserve exactly length + 1 bytes.
• Copy every character from src into the new buffer, then append '\0'.
• Return the pointer to the newly allocated string.
• Return NULL if malloc fails.