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[PATCH] strstrip() API

Add a new strstrip() function to lib/string.c for removing leading and trailing whitespace from a string.

Pekka Enberg committed 20 years ago

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@@ -301,6 +301,36 @@ char *strnchr(const char *s, size_t count, int c) · 300 unmodified lines
301EXPORT_SYMBOL(strnchr);301EXPORT_SYMBOL(strnchr);
302#endif302#endif
303 303
304/**
305 * strstrip - Removes leading and trailing whitespace from @s.
306 * @s: The string to be stripped.
307 *
308 * Note that the first trailing whitespace is replaced with a %NUL-terminator
309 * in the given string @s. Returns a pointer to the first non-whitespace
310 * character in @s.
311 */
312char *strstrip(char *s)
313{
314 size_t size;
315 char *end;
316
317 size = strlen(s);
318
319 if (!size)
320 return s;
321
322 end = s + size - 1;
323 while (end != s && isspace(*end))
324 end--;
325 *(end + 1) = '\0';
326
327 while (*s && isspace(*s))
328 s++;
329
330 return s;
331}
332EXPORT_SYMBOL(strstrip);
333
304#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_STRLEN334#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_STRLEN
305/**335/**
306 * strlen - Find the length of a string336 * strlen - Find the length of a string