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)