How do I properly turn a const char* returned from a function into a const char** in C?

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Published on 2010-05-09T04:23:03Z Indexed on 2010/05/09 4:28 UTC
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In short, I would like to do this:

const char **stringPtr = &getString();

However, I understand that you can't & on rvalues. So I'm stuck with this:

const char *string = getString();
const char **stringPtr = &string;

I can live with two lines. Am I introducing problems with this hack? I should have no fear of passing stringPtr out of the function it is declared in, right?

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