Help , why not return a true array?

From:
"<John Wu>" <jo.mice@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Fri, 6 Apr 2007 11:21:37 +0800
Message-ID:
<ev4glg$d03$1@news.cn99.com>
The output is:
1234
After getline: 1234
After renew: 1234
After retnp: ????????????????G
After getp: ????????????????G
-----What happen after renew/retnp call?-------
Why not return a true array?
-----The code is as followed-------------------
#include <iostream.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>

void print(char *,const char *);
void renew(char *);
void retnp(char *);
char* getp(char *);
int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
 char *p = new char[5];
 cin.getline(p,5);
 print(p,"getline");
 renew(p);
 print(p,"renew");
 retnp(p);
 print(p,"retnp");
 char * p1;
 p1 = getp(p);
 print(p1,"getp");
 return 0;
}
//print
void print(char *p,const char *st)
{
 cout<<"After "<<st<<": "<<p<<endl;
}
//renew
void renew(char *p)
{
 char *p1 = new char[strlen(p)+1];
 strcpy(p1,p);
 delete [] p;
 p = new char[10];
 strcpy(p,p1);
}
//retnp
void retnp(char *p)
{
 char *p1 = new char[strlen(p)+1];
 strcpy(p1,p);
 delete [] p;
 p = p1;
 p1 = NULL;
 delete p1;
}
//getp
char* getp(char *p)
{
 char *p1 = new char[strlen(p)+1];
 strcpy(p1,p);

 return p1;
}

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