From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Q] Cleaning string whitespace trimming. Does it make any sense?
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 18:21:17 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120613182117.GU13539@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALF0-+V15wjFhZH5P1C+4sJ9QSw7QY5Rk383S4XhVVCBsnXUQw@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 03:16:24PM -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
> Dan,
>
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 5:58 PM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> wrote:
> > Actually, on second thought strim() already does what we want. Just
> > ignore the return value.
> >
>
> If I *only* want to remove trailing whitespace, using strim() does the job
> but it *also* tries to remove leading whitespace.
>
> That can't hurt, but it also doesn't hurt to add a separate function
> for that, right?
It returns a pointer to the first non whitespace character, but you
can just ignore the return value. Normally the first character is
going to be non whitespace, so it's not even a slow down.
regards,
dan carpenter
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-13 18:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-12 17:52 [Q] Cleaning string whitespace trimming. Does it make any sense? Ezequiel Garcia
2012-06-12 18:49 ` Dan Carpenter
2012-06-12 20:58 ` Dan Carpenter
2012-06-12 22:03 ` Ezequiel Garcia
2012-06-13 6:06 ` Dan Carpenter
2012-06-13 7:23 ` walter harms
2012-06-13 17:06 ` Ezequiel Garcia
2012-06-13 18:16 ` Ezequiel Garcia
2012-06-13 18:21 ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2012-06-13 18:30 ` Ezequiel Garcia
2012-06-13 18:37 ` Dan Carpenter
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