## Function: SB-ALIEN:MAKE-ALIEN-STRING
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> Copy part of STRING delimited by START and END into freshly
> allocated foreign memory, freeable using free(3) or FREE-ALIEN.
> Returns the allocated string as a (* CHAR) alien, and the number of
> bytes allocated as secondary value.
> 
> The string is encoded using EXTERNAL-FORMAT. If NULL-TERMINATE is
> true (the default), the alien string is terminated by an additional
> null byte.

### Lambda list
```cl
(string &rest rest &key sb-alien::start sb-alien::end sb-alien::external-format
        sb-alien::null-terminate)
```