> -----Original Message-----
> I'm having trouble writing a UDF in Delphi that returns a
> PChar. This is a simple example of what I'm trying to do:
>
> function test(InputString: PChar): PChar; begin
> result := StrAlloc(Length(InputString));
> StrCopy(result, InputString);
> // Presumably the StrAlloc will be freed by the UDF's FREE IT???
> end;

Shouldn't you use IBMalloc (or similar name) function to allocate memory
instead of StrAlloc?

Rgds

Si Carter
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