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;
}
AUTHOR¶
Lars Wirzenius (lars.wirzenius@helsinki.fi)
