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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)