5 * Returns the length of a line, without trailing spaces.
7 * If the line ends with newline, it will be removed too.
9 static size_t cleanup(char *line, size_t len)
12 unsigned char c = line[len - 1];
22 * Remove empty lines from the beginning and end
23 * and also trailing spaces from every line.
25 * Note that the buffer will not be NUL-terminated.
27 * Turn multiple consecutive empty lines between paragraphs
28 * into just one empty line.
30 * If the input has only empty lines and spaces,
31 * no output will be produced.
33 * If last line does not have a newline at the end, one is added.
35 * Enable skip_comments to skip every line starting with "#".
37 void stripspace(struct strbuf *sb, int skip_comments)
40 size_t i, j, len, newlen;
43 /* We may have to add a newline. */
46 for (i = j = 0; i < sb->len; i += len, j += newlen) {
47 eol = memchr(sb->buf + i, '\n', sb->len - i);
48 len = eol ? eol - (sb->buf + i) + 1 : sb->len - i;
50 if (skip_comments && len && sb->buf[i] == '#') {
54 newlen = cleanup(sb->buf + i, len);
56 /* Not just an empty line? */
58 if (empties > 0 && j > 0)
61 memmove(sb->buf + j, sb->buf + i, newlen);
62 sb->buf[newlen + j++] = '\n';
71 int cmd_stripspace(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
74 int strip_comments = 0;
76 if (argc > 1 && (!strcmp(argv[1], "-s") ||
77 !strcmp(argv[1], "--strip-comments")))
81 if (strbuf_read(&buf, 0, 1024) < 0)
82 die("could not read the input");
84 stripspace(&buf, strip_comments);
86 write_or_die(1, buf.buf, buf.len);