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)