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| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/string.h | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/string.c | 30 |
2 files changed, 31 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/string.h b/include/linux/string.h index c61306da8c52..e4c755860316 100644 --- a/include/linux/string.h +++ b/include/linux/string.h @@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ extern char * strnchr(const char *, size_t, int); #ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_STRRCHR extern char * strrchr(const char *,int); #endif +extern char * strstrip(char *); #ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_STRSTR extern char * strstr(const char *,const char *); #endif diff --git a/lib/string.c b/lib/string.c index 064f6315b1c3..63077267367e 100644 --- a/lib/string.c +++ b/lib/string.c @@ -301,6 +301,36 @@ char *strnchr(const char *s, size_t count, int c) EXPORT_SYMBOL(strnchr); #endif +/** + * strstrip - Removes leading and trailing whitespace from @s. + * @s: The string to be stripped. + * + * Note that the first trailing whitespace is replaced with a %NUL-terminator + * in the given string @s. Returns a pointer to the first non-whitespace + * character in @s. + */ +char *strstrip(char *s) +{ + size_t size; + char *end; + + size = strlen(s); + + if (!size) + return s; + + end = s + size - 1; + while (end != s && isspace(*end)) + end--; + *(end + 1) = '\0'; + + while (*s && isspace(*s)) + s++; + + return s; +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(strstrip); + #ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_STRLEN /** * strlen - Find the length of a string |