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

This is the shortest possible implementation I can think of:

static const char *WhiteSpace=" \n\r\t";
char* trim(char *t)
{
    char *e=t+(t!=NULL?strlen(t):0);               // *e initially points to end of string
    if (t==NULL) return;
    do --e; while (strchr(WhiteSpace, *e) && e>=t);  // Find last char that is not \r\n\t
    *(++e)=0;                                      // Null-terminate
    e=t+strspn (t,WhiteSpace);                           // Find first char that is not \t
    return e>t?memmove(t,e,strlen(e)+1):t;                  // memmove string contents and terminator
}