# Strings and embedding

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/strings-and-embedding/14433
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** embedding
**Created:** [September 2, 2018, 3:12pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/strings-and-embedding/14433 "2018-09-02T15:12:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author: ![bjornerstedt](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/bjornerstedt/32/5659_2.png) [@bjornerstedt](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/bjornerstedt)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2018, 3:12pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/strings-and-embedding/14433/1 "2018-09-02T15:12:54Z")

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I am trying to convert a String returned from Julia. How do you get a string from a jl\_value\_t to a char \* in C?

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### Author: ![stevengj](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/stevengj/32/71_2.png) [@stevengj](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/stevengj)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2018, 6:03pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/strings-and-embedding/14433/2 "2018-09-02T18:03:48Z")

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> <https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/f77c36bc7511fd384388561c69c0e79546e2aeae/src/julia.h#L860-L861>