How do I trim leading/trailing whitespace in a standard way?

Question

Is there a clean, preferably standard method of trimming leading and trailing whitespace from a string in C? I\'d roll my own, but I would think this is a common problem wit

Answer 1

Ok this is my take on the question. I believe it's the most concise solution that modifies the string in place (free will work) and avoids any UB. For small strings, it's probably faster than a solution involving memmove.

void stripWS_LT(char *str)
{
    char *a = str, *b = str;
    while (isspace((unsigned char)*a)) a++;
    while (*b = *a++)  b++;
    while (b > str && isspace((unsigned char)*--b)) *b = 0;
}