How to remove \n or \t from a given string in C?

Question

How can I strip a string with all \\n and \\t in C?

Answer 1

This works in my quick and dirty tests. Does it in place:

#include 

void strip(char *s) {
    char *p2 = s;
    while(*s != '\0') {
        if(*s != '\t' && *s != '\n') {
            *p2++ = *s++;
        } else {
            ++s;
        }
    }
    *p2 = '\0';
}

int main() {
    char buf[] = "this\t is\n a\t test\n test";
    strip(buf);
    printf("%s\n", buf);
}

And to appease Chris, here is a version which will make a place the result in a newly malloced buffer and return it (thus it'll work on literals). You will need to free the result.

char *strip_copy(const char *s) {
    char *p = malloc(strlen(s) + 1);
    if(p) {
        char *p2 = p;
        while(*s != '\0') {
            if(*s != '\t' && *s != '\n') {
                *p2++ = *s++;
            } else {
                ++s;
            }
        }
        *p2 = '\0';
    }
    return p;
}