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