trim_spaces.c File Reference

Implementation of trim_spaces function.. More...

#include "mdb.h"

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Functions
char *	trim_spaces (char *s)
	Trims leading and trailing spaces from a string.

Detailed Description

Implementation of trim_spaces function..

Copyright

• (c) 2002 The University of Chicago, as Operator of Argonne National Laboratory.
• (c) 2002 The Regents of the University of California, as Operator of Los Alamos National Laboratory.

License

This file is distributed under the terms of the Software License Agreement found in the file LICENSE included with this distribution.

Author

M. Borland, C Saunders, R. Soliday

Definition in file trim_spaces.c.

Function Documentation

trim_spaces()

char * trim_spaces

(

char *

s

)

Trims leading and trailing spaces from a string.

This function removes all leading and trailing space characters from the input string s by modifying it in place. It returns a pointer to the trimmed string.

Parameters

s	The string to be trimmed.

Returns

A pointer to the trimmed string.

Definition at line 28 of file trim_spaces.c.

                           {
  char *ptr;
  if (strlen(s) == 0)
    return (s);
  ptr = s;
  while (*ptr == ' ')
    ptr++;
  if (ptr != s)
    strcpy_ss(s, ptr);
  ptr = s + strlen(s) - 1;
  while (*ptr == ' ' && ptr != s)
    ptr--;
  *++ptr = 0;
  return (s);
}