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From: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Test of possible ACSGATE on net
Message-ID: <14906@haddock.ima.isc.com>
Date: 17 Oct 89 03:17:31 GMT
References: <16103@nswitgould.cs.uts.oz>
Reply-To: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Organization: Interactive Systems, Cambridge, MA 02138-5302
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In article <16103@nswitgould.cs.uts.oz> garth_kidd%680.808@fidogate.fido.oz (Garth Kidd) writes:
>Can anyone think of a tighter way of coding a filter to strip spaces

If tightness is of more concern than portabililty off UNIX, you could use
	main(){system("tr -d ' '");}
which can be further improved by making it a shell script.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint