From: firewind <firewind AT metroid DOT dyn DOT ml DOT org>
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Subject: Re: GCC TrimRight?
Date: 1 Oct 1997 02:31:26 GMT
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Steve Laisch <slaisch AT typhoon DOT xnet DOT com> wrote:
> In Visual Basic and Visual C++/MFC their is a useful
> command called TrimRight() which will take a string and
> trim all the whitespace off the right side of the string.

> Atleast _I_ think its useful :-)  Is their anything similiar
> in regular ANSI C in DJGPP?  I'm not even sure if GXX(C++) has
> anything like it but I need a C counterpart and all my
> C texts before 1987 don't have one(Yes, I need to buy 
> books more often :-)

Find the end of the string (marked by '\0') and go backwards from there,
moving the '\0' to the left one space if the character there is whitespace.

(Assuming p is a char *, save the original value cause p will not point to
the beginning of the string after this)

while(*p != '\0') p++;
while(isspace(*--p)) *p = '\0';

late\fw

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