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STRLTRIM(3)                  C Programmer's Manual                 STRLTRIM(3)

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)

Publib                       C Programmer's Manual                 STRLTRIM(3)