5 * Remove trailing spaces from a line.
7 * If the line ends with newline, it will be removed too.
8 * Returns the new length of the string.
10 static int cleanup(char *line, int len)
13 if (line[len - 1] == '\n')
17 unsigned char c = line[len - 1];
28 * Remove empty lines from the beginning and end
29 * and also trailing spaces from every line.
31 * Turn multiple consecutive empty lines between paragraphs
32 * into just one empty line.
34 * If the input has only empty lines and spaces,
35 * no output will be produced.
37 * Enable skip_comments to skip every line starting with "#".
39 void stripspace(FILE *in, FILE *out, int skip_comments)
43 char *line = xmalloc(alloc);
45 while (fgets(line, alloc, in)) {
46 int len = strlen(line);
48 while (len == alloc - 1 && line[len - 1] != '\n') {
49 alloc = alloc_nr(alloc);
50 line = xrealloc(line, alloc);
51 fgets(line + len, alloc - len, in);
52 len += strlen(line + len);
55 if (skip_comments && line[0] == '#')
57 len = cleanup(line, len);
59 /* Not just an empty line? */
75 int cmd_stripspace(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
77 stripspace(stdin, stdout, 0);