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calloc and strdup-style copies

• calloc(count, size) allocates and zeroes the memory.
• To keep a copy of a string, allocate strlen(s) + 1 bytes (the +1 is for '\0') and copy it in.

Your turn: write char *copy_string(const char *s) that returns a new heap copy of s.

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