Re: [bug-gnulib] new module proposal: strip

[Davide Angelocola]

On Friday 01 September 2006 18:58, you wrote:
> Thanks; it looks already better.
>
> In multibyte strings you cannot "go backwards". You have to write the
> algorithm in a way that progresses from the first to the last multibyte
> character. (*) In this case, you can do so by moving from first to last,
> memorizing the position of the last non-whitespace character. More
> precisely, a pointer pointing after this character. When you have
> reached the end of the string, you put a '\0' where the memoized pointer
> points to, and are done.
Done. Thanks for the suggestions.

Best regards,
-- Davide Angelocola

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