Need help for a function

[Unregistered]

I need a fucntion that takes out all whitespace from a string as well as \n and \t.
I'm a newbie.

[Prelude]

Just loop through the entire array and copy anything that isn't whitespace.

int i, j = 0;
char array[SIZE] = "  Now is the   time   ", 
     buffer[SIZE];

for( i = 0; i < SIZE; ++i ){
  if( !isspace(array[i]) ){
    buffer[j] = array[i];
    j++;
  }
}

[Govtcheez]

Won't that just make an identical copy of the original array?

1st loop-
i = 0
array[0] = ' '
so no copy...

But on the 3rd loop
i = 2
array[2] = 'N'
buffer[2] = 'N'

See what I mean?

[Prelude]

Not anymore, thanks for pointing that out Govt.

-Prelude

[clu82]

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

void RemoveWhiteSpace(char *p);

int main(void)
{
	char str[] = "Remove\t\tall  white space\n and new lines";

	RemoveWhiteSpace(str);

	return 0;
}

void RemoveWhiteSpace(char *p)
{
	char *t;
	int found = 0;

	while (*p)
	{
		if (*p == ' ' || *p == '\t' || *p == '\n')
		{
			t = p;	// use temp pointer to move characters

			while (*t)
			{
				*t = *(t + 1);
				t++;
			}

			found = 1;
		}
		
		if (!found)	// don't advance the pointer if we found a "filtered" character
			p++;
		else			
			found = 0;
	}
}

[clu82]

I forgot to mention that my code will remove the whitespace from the *original* character array, where as Prelude's code will create a *new* character array.