strtrim(3pub) [debian man page]

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)

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)