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)
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STRCSTR(3pub) C Programmer's Manual STRCSTR(3pub)NAME
strcstr - convert memory block to printable C string notation
SYNOPSIS
#include <publib.h>
void strcstr(char *str, size_t max, const void *block, size_t n);
DESCRIPTION
strcstr converts the contents of an arbitrary memory block (which need not be a zero terminated string) into a printable notation using
normal C string literal syntax. This can be used for example to store potentially binary data in a file, or in debugging outputs.
All characters for which there is a simple shorthand escape sequence (', ", ?, , a, , f,
,
, , v) are stored using that nota-
tion. is stored as . All other non-printable characters are stored using a hexadecimal escape sequence. All other printable charac-
ters are stored as is.
The isprint(3) macro is used to determine whether a character is printable (i.e., whether it is printed as is, or using special notation).
Therefore, the output depends on the locale.
RETURN VALUE
strcstr returns nothing.
EXAMPLE
The following code dumps input to the standard output in a guaranteed (modulo locale bugs) printable format. It might be used for debug-
ging.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <publib.h>
int main(void) {
char line[512];
char cstr[512*(CHAR_BIT/4+1+2)+1]; /* +2 for x, +1 for ,
the rest to be able to
store the hex code for
512 chars. */
while (fgets(line, sizeof(line), stdin) != NULL) {
strcstr(cstr, sizeof(cstr), line, strlen(line));
printf("%s0, cstr);
}
return 0;
}
SEE ALSO publib(3), strins(3)AUTHOR
Lars Wirzenius (lars.wirzenius@helsinki.fi)
Publib C Programmer's Manual STRCSTR(3pub)
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