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STRLTRIM(3pub)						       C Programmer's Manual						    STRLTRIM(3pub)

NAME
       strltrim - remove leading whitespace from string

SYNOPSIS
       #include <publib.h>
       char *strltrim(char *s);

DESCRIPTION
       strltrim  removes all leading whitespace characters from the beginning of a string, by moving everything starting from the first non-white-
       space character to the beginning of the string.	As whitespace is counted everything for which isspace(3) returns true.

RETURN VALUE
       strltrim returns its argument.

EXAMPLE
       To remove all indentation from all lines in a program, you might do the following:

	    #include <publib.h>

	    int main(void) {
		 char line[512];

		 while (fgets(line, sizeof(line), stdio) != NULL) {
		      strltrim(line);
		      printf("%s", line);
		 }
		 return 0;
	    }

SEE ALSO
       publib(3), strrtrim(3), strtrim(3), isspace(3)

AUTHOR
       Lars Wirzenius (lars.wirzenius@helsinki.fi)

Publib							       C Programmer's Manual						    STRLTRIM(3pub)