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trim string c

Nice Narwhal answered on November 15, 2023 Popularity 6/10 Helpfulness 2/10

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/**
 * _trim- Remove leading and trailing white space characters
 * @str: string to be trimmed
 * Example: _trim(" Hello ") modifies input string to "Hello"
 * Return: void
 */
void _trim(char *str)
{
	int index, i;

	/*
	 * Trim leading white spaces
	 */
	index = 0;
	while (str[index] == ' ' || str[index] == '\t' || str[index] == '\n')
	{
		index++;
	}

	/* Shift all trailing characters to its left */
	i = 0;
	while (str[i + index] != '\0')
	{
		str[i] = str[i + index];
		i++;
	}
	str[i] = '\0'; /* Terminate string with NULL*/


	/*
	 * Trim trailing white spaces
	 */
	i = 0;
	index = -1;
	while (str[i] != '\0')
	{
		if (str[i] != ' ' && str[i] != '\t' && str[i] != '\n')
		{
			index = i;
		}

		i++;
	}

	/* Mark the next character to last non white space character as NULL */
	str[index + 1] = '\0';
}

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