Hi, i am currently writing a library, and have the following issue. i have a class (lens) that contains the manufacturer name as a char array. I know i cant just return the array, but since the variable itself is private, i also cant return a pointer. how do i return the manufacturer name? clas…

it's pretty common practice that such a function would be passed a char array to return the string in, relying on the calling function to allocate the buffer

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i want to make sure it can only be set by calling the set function because i need to make sure the input is valid

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Writing a library - returning a char array

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