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NAME

       strltrim - remove leading whitespace from string

SYNOPSIS

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

DESCRIPTION

       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.

RETURN VALUE

       strltrim 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 ALSO

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

AUTHOR

       Lars Wirzenius (lars.wirzenius@helsinki.fi)