RosettaCodeData/Task/Call-a-foreign-language-fun.../Go/call-a-foreign-language-fun...

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Go

package main
// #include <string.h>
// #include <stdlib.h>
import "C"
import (
"fmt"
"unsafe"
)
func main() {
// a go string
go1 := "hello C"
// allocate in C and convert from Go representation to C representation
c1 := C.CString(go1)
// go string can now be garbage collected
go1 = ""
// strdup, per task. this calls the function in the C library.
c2 := C.strdup(c1)
// free the source C string. again, this is free() in the C library.
C.free(unsafe.Pointer(c1))
// create a new Go string from the C copy
go2 := C.GoString(c2)
// free the C copy
C.free(unsafe.Pointer(c2))
// demonstrate we have string contents intact
fmt.Println(go2)
}