RE: [PHP-DEV] when to duplicate string using add_index_string?

>'duplicate' does mean 'duplicate me'. >If duplicate is set to 0, then you tell the engine not to duplicate the >string, but use it as-is. If it's set to 1, then you tell the engine to >duplicate it, because this string is either static, or already referenced >by other things in PHP. Now I'm confused... :-) What happens if I actually _want_ to reference the same string? Say, I get some string from somewhere (say, an argument), then I should use 1 for duplicate, because it is already referenced... like this: add_index_string(return_value, 0, arg->value.str.val, 1); // $data[0] == '*arg->value.str.val' Then, when I need to create the association (pointing to the same data), I should use 0, because I don't want the data duplicated... like this add_assoc_string(return_value, "zero", arg->value.str.val, 0); // $data["zero"] == $data[0] == '*arg->value.str.val' This sequence is actually what I said in my first example, so do I still not get it, or was my first example not clear enough? What I didn't say in my first example is that I don't allocate the data myself... BTW, if I did allocate the data myself, and used a 0 in the first call, should I still deallocate the data, or is this handled by the engine now? And if I _do_ use a 1 (so it gets duplicated) then I certainly must deallocate the date myself, right? Cheerio, Marc.