Re: Trimming whitespaces

john_g83@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> have a bit of c code that is ment to take a string (that may or
> may not have spaces before or after the string) i.e. " stuff ",
> and trims off the whitespace before and after.
> Code:
>
> char *trim (char *str, char ch)

Untested:

char *trim(char *s, char ch)
{
char *p;

if (s && *s && ch) { /* avoid evil cases */
while (ch == *s) s++; /* trims leading. */
p = s; /* must be advanced over entry */
while (*p) p++; /* find end of string */
p-- /* last char in string */
while ((p > s) && (ch == *p)) p--;
*p = '\0';
}
return s; /* ok in evil cases */
}

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