Thread: whats wrong with this function?

I just made this function a miniute ago, and its suppost to remove the space off of the beginning of a string. It compiles fine, but doesn't seem to do anything at all to the string. Im not sure why its not working. Thanks! Also, I was searching the forum for a possiable answer to this before, and one of the posts made a reference to 'isspace()'. What header does that function lie in?

Code:

//in main:
command[256]=a_remove_space(command);
cout << command;

//the function
char a_remove_space(char string[])
{
	char newstring[256];
	int i2=0;  //used in local embedded loop
	int last_slot=0;  //the slot of the string that a space is no longer found
	bool done=false;
	
	
	
	//remove spaces from string
	for(i=0;i<(strlen(newstring));i++)
	{
		if(string[i]!='/0')  //if we found a slot without a space then continue
		{
			last_slot=i;  //get the slot of the string that we found the letter
			for(i2=last_slot;i2<(strlen(string));i2++)  //initialize a new loop to re-fill the array
			{
				newstring[i2-last_slot]=string[i2];  //refill the array
				done=true;
			}
		}
		if(done==true) break;  //exit the base for...loop if done is set to true
	}

	return newstring[256];
}

In main, it prints the string just as it was before, with the spaces in the front. Thanks for any help!

by beginning I mean all the characters from the string, starting from '0', that are spaces. If the string was ' hello' Then, since there are 7 spaces, I would want to shave the 7 spaces off.

do you want it to remove the empty space only when outputting??

"If the string was ' hello' Then, since there are 7 spaces"

This forums took out the spaces, there should be 7 spaces before the text hello.

Kespire - Not only when outputting, but the actual character array, as later it is used with other string manipulaton functions.