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diff --git a/docs/examples/tutorial/string/c_func.pyx b/docs/examples/tutorial/string/c_func.pyx
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+from libc.stdlib cimport malloc
+from libc.string cimport strcpy, strlen
+
+cdef char* hello_world = 'hello world'
+cdef Py_ssize_t n = strlen(hello_world)
+
+
+cdef char* c_call_returning_a_c_string():
+    cdef char* c_string = <char *> malloc((n + 1) * sizeof(char))
+    strcpy(c_string, hello_world)
+    return c_string
+
+
+cdef void get_a_c_string(char** c_string_ptr, Py_ssize_t *length):
+    c_string_ptr[0] = <char *> malloc((n + 1) * sizeof(char))
+
+    strcpy(c_string_ptr[0], hello_world)
+    length[0] = n