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<h3 class="unnumberedsec">foreign-string-alloc</h3>

<h4 class="subheading">Syntax</h4>

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&mdash; Function: <b>foreign-string-alloc</b><var> string &amp;key encoding null-terminated-p start end &rArr; pointer<a name="index-foreign_002dstring_002dalloc-118"></a></var><br>
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<h4 class="subheading">Arguments and Values</h4>

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<dt><var>string</var>