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----- Original Message -----
> What is the lifetime of the string passed to dosomething()? Will it
> eventually be garbage-collected sometime after dosomething() has
> returned? So, would dosomething() have to make a copy of the string?

It only lives in your function - So yes you must make a copy and store it
somewhere safe :-)

/Erik