Programming

I am coding a C program to read a plain text file. There are a lot of blank fields or a string with white spaces. I want to know is there such a function called trim() in C to clean the white space around a string? Or some other way can do this efficiently? Thanks.

writing your own will be as efficient as provided

char *trim(char *str)
{
char ptr[strlen(str)+1];
int i,j=0;
for(i=0;str[i]!='\0';i++)
{
if (str[i] != ' ' && str[i] != '\t')
ptr[j++]=str[i];
}
ptr[j]='\0'
str=ptr;
}

though written C code after long long time, and its not tested one too... but it left me in good mood.

happy programming!!!


Rishi

Hi

this is only a part,

strip leading and trailing spaces; check for specified patterns

#define SUCCESS 1
#define FAILURE 0

// 0-for space and 1-for digit

// you can have allowable patterns in Patterns Array.

char *Patterns[]={"010", "1", "10", "01"};
char *b=" 1 23456";
char *temp;
int i, j=0, len, prev=-1;
len=strlen(b);
temp=(char*)calloc(10, sizeof(char));
for ( i=0; i<len; i++ )
{
if( b[i] != ' ' )
{
if( prev != 1 )
temp[j++]='1';
}
else
{
if( prev != 0 )
temp[j++]='0';
}
prev = ( b[i] == ' ' ) ? 0 : 1;
}
temp[j]='\0';
for ( i=0; i<=3; i++ )
{
if( strcmp(Patterns[i], temp) == 0 )
{
len=strlen(b);
for ( prev=0, j=0; j<len; j++ )
{
if ( b[j] != ' ' )
temp[prev++]=b[j];
}
temp[prev]='\0';
break;
}
}

yeah, this is a years' old thread; here's a generic pattern that can be used:

Code:

/*----------trim (char) c from right-side of string *p------------------*/
char *strtrim_right( register char *p, register c)
{
    register char *end;
    register int len;

    len = strlen( p);
    while ( *p && len)
    {
        end = p + len-1;
        if( c == *end)
            *end = 0;
        else
            break;
        len = strlen( p);
    }
    return( p);
}

strtrim_left() is left as an exercise to the reader, but you can use the principle here quite readily.

I should have mentioned that whitespace is considered to be any of the following characters:

0x09 - horizontal tab
0x0a - linefeed
0x0b - vertical tab
0x0c - form feed
0x0d - carriage return
0x20 - space

so keep that in mind when you program for trimming whitespace...

Code:

register char *end;
    register int len;

I don't see a specific reason to see register variables here, which is not guaranteed as well.

You do realize that the register class hints that the declared objects will be accessed frequently, right.