strim(9)

💅 NAME 💅

okay bestie, welcome to strim(9) from the Kernel API Manual — she’s the little icon whose whole job is removing leading and trailing whitespace from @s. clean, crisp, no messy edges. periodt. ✨🧹

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

char * strim (char *s );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• s — the string that’s getting stripped. that’s the main character right there, fr fr. 🫶

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here’s the tea: the first trailing whitespace gets replaced with a NUL-terminator inside the given string s. then strim returns a pointer to the first non-whitespace character in s. literally handing you the glow-up point after the trim. 💅

heads up, bestie: that NUL replacement happens in the given string s, so this is not a read-only little peek — she’s changing the string you passed in. 😭

🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

Kernel file ./tools/lib/string.c — go hang with the friend group: memdup(9), strtobool(9), strlcpy(9), skip_spaces(9), strreplace(9), memchr_inv(9). the whole crew ate. 👑🔥

mwah 💖 this strim(9) page comes from ./tools/lib, dated October 2026. bye bestie — go trim something cute. 🎀🦋