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NAME

       strtrim - remove leading and trailing whitespace

SYNOPSIS

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

DESCRIPTION

       strtrim  removes  all whitespace characters from the beginning and the end of a string.  As whitespace is
       counted everything for which isspace(3) returns true.

RETURN VALUE

       strtrim returns its argument.

EXAMPLE

       To remove whitespace from the beginning and end of all lines, you might do the following:

            #include <publib.h>

            int main(void) {
                 char line[512];

                 while (fgets(line, sizeof(line), stdio) != NULL) {
                      strtrim(line);
                      printf("%s", line);
                 }
                 return 0;
            }

SEE ALSO

       publib(3), strrtrim(3), strltrim(3), isspace(3)

AUTHOR

       Lars Wirzenius (lars.wirzenius@helsinki.fi)