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 if (line
[len
- 1] == '\n')
16 unsigned char c
= line
[len
- 1];
26 * Remove empty lines from the beginning and end
27 * and also trailing spaces from every line.
29 * Note that the buffer will not be NUL-terminated.
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 * If last line has a newline at the end, it will be removed.
39 * Enable skip_comments to skip every line starting with "#".
41 size_t stripspace(char *buffer
, size_t length
, int skip_comments
)
44 size_t i
, j
, len
, newlen
;
47 for (i
= j
= 0; i
< length
; i
+= len
, j
+= newlen
) {
48 eol
= memchr(buffer
+ i
, '\n', length
- i
);
49 len
= eol
? eol
- (buffer
+ i
) + 1 : length
- i
;
51 if (skip_comments
&& len
&& buffer
[i
] == '#') {
55 newlen
= cleanup(buffer
+ i
, len
);
57 /* Not just an empty line? */
64 memmove(buffer
+ j
, buffer
+ i
, newlen
);
75 int cmd_stripspace(int argc
, const char **argv
, const char *prefix
)
79 int strip_comments
= 0;
81 if (argc
> 1 && (!strcmp(argv
[1], "-s") ||
82 !strcmp(argv
[1], "--strip-comments")))
86 buffer
= xmalloc(size
);
87 if (read_fd(0, &buffer
, &size
)) {
89 die("could not read the input");
92 size
= stripspace(buffer
, size
, strip_comments
);
93 write_or_die(1, buffer
, size
);