debian man page for strltrim

Query: strltrim

OS: debian

Section: 3pub

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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)
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