NAME

       FFI::Platypus::Type::StringPointer - Convert a pointer to a string and back

VERSION

       version 2.00

SYNOPSIS

       In your C code:

        void
        string_pointer_argument(const char **string)
        {
          ...
        }
        const char **
        string_pointer_return(void)
        {
          ...
        }

       In your Platypus::FFI code:

        use FFI::Platypus 2.00;

        my $ffi = FFI::Platypus->new( api => 2 );
        $ffi->load_custom_type('::StringPointer' => 'string_pointer');

        $ffi->attach(string_pointer_argument => ['string_pointer'] => 'void');
        $ffi->attach(string_pointer_return   => [] => 'string_pointer');

        my $string = "foo";

        string_pointer_argument(\$string); # $string may be modified

        $ref = string_pointer_return();

        print $$ref;  # print the string pointed to by $ref

DESCRIPTION

       NOTE: As of version 0.61, this custom type is now deprecated since pointers to strings are
       supported in the FFI::Platypus directly without custom types.

       This module provides a FFI::Platypus custom type for pointers to strings.

SEE ALSO

       FFI::Platypus
           Main Platypus documentation.

       FFI::Platypus::Type
           Platypus types documentation.

AUTHOR

       Author: Graham Ollis <plicease@cpan.org>

       Contributors:

       Bakkiaraj Murugesan (bakkiaraj)

       Dylan Cali (calid)

       pipcet

       Zaki Mughal (zmughal)

       Fitz Elliott (felliott)

       Vickenty Fesunov (vyf)

       Gregor Herrmann (gregoa)

       Shlomi Fish (shlomif)

       Damyan Ivanov

       Ilya Pavlov (Ilya33)

       Petr Písař (ppisar)

       Mohammad S Anwar (MANWAR)

       Håkon Hægland (hakonhagland, HAKONH)

       Meredith (merrilymeredith, MHOWARD)

       Diab Jerius (DJERIUS)

       Eric Brine (IKEGAMI)

       szTheory

       José Joaquín Atria (JJATRIA)

       Pete Houston (openstrike, HOUSTON)

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       This software is copyright (c) 2015-2022 by Graham Ollis.

       This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as
       the Perl 5 programming language system itself.