Remove extra white space from inside a C string?

Question

I have read a few lines of text into an array of C-strings. The lines have an arbitrary number of tab or space-delimited columns, and I am trying to figure out how to remove

Answer 1

char* trimwhitespace(char *str_base) {
    char* buffer = str_base;
    while((buffer = strchr(str_base, ' '))) {
        strcpy(buffer, buffer+1);
    }

    return str_base;
}