#include /* The C Programming Language: 2nd Edition * * Exercise 1-18: Write a program to remove trailing blanks and tabs from each * line of input, and to delete entirely blank lines. * * Answer: Simple -- start from the end of the line and look for a non-blank * character. Once found, place your \n and \0 just afterwards. By checking * that 'i' > 1, it ensures that blank lines never get spit out, since a line * with content will always be 2 or more characters long due to the \n. */ #define MAXLINELENGTH 9001 int get_line(char s[], int lim) { int c, i; for (i = 0; i < lim - 1 && (c = getchar()) != EOF && c != '\n'; ++i) { s[i] = c; } if (c == '\n') { s[i] = c; ++i; } s[i + 1] = '\0'; return i; } int main(void) { char buffer[MAXLINELENGTH]; int c, i, len; /* Make sure every line is gone over */ while (len = get_line(buffer, MAXLINELENGTH)) { /* An empty for statement, simply to change the i variable. * Subtracting 2 from 'len' is to account for 0-based indexing and the \0 * string terminator. */ for (i = len - 2; (i > 0) && (buffer[i] == ' ') || (buffer[i] == '\t'); --i); /* We've reached the end of the line's actual content. Terminate the line. */ if (i >= 1) { buffer[i + 1] = '\n'; buffer[i + 2] = '\0'; printf("%s", buffer); } } }