# passing Julia datetime and string arrays from C to Julia

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/passing-julia-datetime-and-string-arrays-from-c-to-julia/24425>\
**Category:** New to Julia\
**Created:** [May 21, 2019, 12:08pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/passing-julia-datetime-and-string-arrays-from-c-to-julia/24425 "2019-05-21T12:08:51Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 21, 2019, 12:08pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/passing-julia-datetime-and-string-arrays-from-c-to-julia/24425/1 "2019-05-21T12:08:51Z")

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I plan to use Julia as one of the languages that manipulates array of data that come from C/C++ programs. So I need to embed Julia. That works alright. However I need to pass array of basic types from C to Julia that includes integers, numbers, strings, datetime. There are quite good example for passing numeric arrays, and I am happy with them, but I need some advice in how to pass date time ARRAY variables (date, daytime, datetime), and strings. Ideally would be a zero copy mechanism, of course, yet I am eager to learn about any other solution.