debian man page for strtrim

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

NAME
       strtrim - remove leading and trailing whitespace

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

DESCRIPTION
       strtrim	removes  all whitespace characters from the beginning and the end of a string.	As whitespace is counted everything for which iss-
       pace(3) returns true.

RETURN VALUE
       strtrim returns its argument.

EXAMPLE
       To remove whitespace from the beginning and end of all lines, you might do the following:

	    #include <publib.h>

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

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

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

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

Publib							       C Programmer's Manual						     STRTRIM(3pub)