From 9bda353724b6dc9176d0dfaf28ef9f1ff4084d4b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Holger Schemel <info@artsoft.org>
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2024 18:57:48 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] added functions to remove leading and/or trailing whitespace
 from strings

---
 src/libgame/misc.c | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/libgame/misc.h |  5 +++++
 2 files changed, 43 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/libgame/misc.c b/src/libgame/misc.c
index 264b7f8d..7450c3a3 100644
--- a/src/libgame/misc.c
+++ b/src/libgame/misc.c
@@ -1441,6 +1441,44 @@ char *getUnescapedString(const char *s)
   return s_unescaped;
 }
 
+char *chugString(char *s)
+{
+  if (s == NULL)
+    return NULL;
+
+  char *start;
+
+  for (start = (char *)s; *start && isspace(*start); start++)
+    ;
+
+  memmove(s, start, strlen(start) + 1);
+
+  return s;
+}
+
+char *chompString(char *s)
+{
+  if (s == NULL)
+    return NULL;
+
+  int len = strlen(s);
+
+  while (len--)
+  {
+    if (isspace(s[len]))
+      s[len] = '\0';
+    else
+      break;
+  }
+
+  return s;
+}
+
+char *stripString(char *s)
+{
+  return chugString(chompString(s));
+}
+
 boolean strEqual(const char *s1, const char *s2)
 {
   return (s1 == NULL && s2 == NULL ? TRUE  :
diff --git a/src/libgame/misc.h b/src/libgame/misc.h
index 111610f8..4548892c 100644
--- a/src/libgame/misc.h
+++ b/src/libgame/misc.h
@@ -188,6 +188,11 @@ char **getSplitStringArray(const char *s, const char *, int);
 int getStringArrayLength(char **);
 void freeStringArray(char **);
 char *getUnescapedString(const char *);
+
+char *chugString(char *);
+char *chompString(char *);
+char *stripString(char *);
+
 boolean strEqual(const char *, const char *);
 boolean strEqualN(const char *, const char *, int);
 boolean strEqualCase(const char *, const char *);
-- 
2.34.1