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 isspace(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)