FwupdPlugin.strdup
Description: Reference for FwupdPlugin.strdup

### Function

# FwupdPluginstrdup

since: 1.8.11

#### Declaration [src]

    GString*
    fu_strdup (
      const gchar* str,
      gsize bufsz,
      gsize offset
    )

#### Description [src]

Copies a string from a buffer of a specified size up to (but not including) `NUL`.

Available since: 1.8.11

#### Parameters

`str`

  Type: `const gchar*`

  A string, e.g. `test`.

  The data is owned by the caller of the function.
  The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.

`bufsz`

  Type: `gsize`

  The maximum size of `str`.

`offset`

  Type: `gsize`

  The offset to start copying from.

#### Return value

Type: `GString`

A `GString`, possibly of zero size.

The caller of the function takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.