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Hi

We have some parallel routines that are porting from linux to windows. some of the routines, planning to rewrite in c++ and use string objects. Howerver datastage native is char*

what is the best way to convert string to char* and vice versa? if a malloc is done to copy string to char* and return char* how to free that malloc before returning it.

Are the char* parameters passed as input or input/output to the external routines? If so, then there shouldn't be an issue with garbage collection.

And if you're allocating memory to local variables, simply free those in the usual fashion before returning.