strltrim

#include <publib.h>
char *strltrim(char *s);

strltrim removes all leading whitespace characters from the beginning of a string, by moving everything starting from the first non-whitespace character to the beginning of the string. As whitespace is counted everything for which isspace(3) returns true.

strltrim returns its argument.

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;
}

publib(3), strrtrim(3), strtrim(3), isspace(3)

Lars Wirzenius (lars.wirzenius@helsinki.fi)