STRLTRIM(3) C Programmer's Manual STRLTRIM(3)NAMEstrltrim - remove leading whitespace from string
SYNOPSIS
#include <publib.h>
char *strltrim(char *s);
DESCRIPTIONstrltrim removes all leading whitespace characters from the beginning
of a string, by moving everything starting from the first non-white‐
space character to the beginning of the string. As whitespace is
counted everything for which isspace(3) returns true.
RETURN VALUEstrltrim 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;
}
SEE ALSOpublib(3), strrtrim(3), strtrim(3), isspace(3)AUTHOR
Lars Wirzenius (lars.wirzenius@helsinki.fi)
Publib C Programmer's Manual STRLTRIM(3)
