dup_string

Similar to get_string except that instead of returning a constant string, the string is duplicated.

The string will always be UTF-8 encoded.

The return value must be freed using g_free.

Example: Get a copy of the string:

public static int main (string[] args) {
	Variant var1 = new Variant.string ("Hello, world!");
	size_t length = 0;

	// Output: ``'Hello, world!', 13``
	print ("'%s', %"+size_t.FORMAT+"\n", var1.dup_string (out length), length);

	return 0;
}

valac --pkg glib-2.0 GLib.Variant.dup_string.vala

Parameters:

this	a string Variant instance
length	a pointer to a size_t, to store the length

Returns:

a newly allocated string, UTF-8 encoded