scan_whitenskip(3)

💖 scan_whitenskip — NAME 💖

okay bestie, this one's called scan_whitenskip, and it's a lil function from the Library Functions Manual, section 3 (that's the C library girlies, iykyk). and what does it do? skip whitespace. that's it. that's the whole vibe. she skips, she's white, she's space. periodt. ✨

🦋 SYNTAX 🦋

so first things first, you gotta bring her in:

#include <libowfat/scan.h>

size_t scan_whitenskip(const char *src,size_t limit);

two args, one size_t coming back at you, no cap. 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so here's the tea 🍓 — scan_whitenskip returns the length of the maximum prefix of src that consists solely of whitespace characters as defined by isspace.

translation for the group chat: she looks at src from the very start, keeps walking while everything is whitespace, and when she finally hits a non-whitespace character she stops and tells you how many steps she took. maximum prefix energy. she does not skip past anything else, she does not get distracted, she's locked in. 👑

and what counts as whitespace around here? normally, this is ' ', '\f', '\n', '\r', '\t', '\v'. that's space, form feed, newline, carriage return, tab, vertical tab. the whole lil crew. 🌈

and yeah, it's whatever your isspace says it is — the manpage says "as defined by isspace", so the locale gets a say. don't come for me, I'm just the messenger. 🙈

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• scan_nonwhitenskip(3) — the opposite twin fr fr, she skips everything that isn't whitespace. they're giving complementary main character energy, obsessed. 🫶

okay that's the whole page, bestie 💜 this was scan_whitenskip(3) from the Library Functions Manual, and the footer was literally just her name again — scan_whitenskip(3) — because she's iconic enough to need no date, no version, no nothing. just vibes. 💅✨🎀