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mrice@caen.engin.umich.edu (Michael Rice) writes:

] I wrote the following code to return a char* (a character pointer)
] to a string let's say "Michigan".  I went through the debugger and
] the return value tempv->vname is correct but it returns something
] else something like "\eu\r4" which is gibberish to me.

] I am mainly calling it like this:

]   printf("%s",findvolname(temp));

Try looking at the prototype definition before the printf().  I assume
that this is either: a) in a separate module; or b) declared below the
point where you are using it. 

Most likely the compiler is returning an int and you are trying to use
it as a pointer.  As a note, an external definition may be sufficient
for return-types but is often not sufficient for parameter types. 

Try putting a full prototype for findvolname() in a header file and
including that header file for all modules that use the function. 
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