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);