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From: diamond@csl.sony.co.jp (Norman Diamond)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Test of possible ACSGATE on net
Message-ID: <10966@riks.csl.sony.co.jp>
Date: 17 Oct 89 01:57:34 GMT
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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 
>from the input stream than this?
> 
>main()
>{
>  char ch;
> 
>  for(;read(0,&ch,1)==1;write(1,&ch,(ch==' ')?0:1))
>    ;
>}

Yeah!  Strip the spaces from it!!!!!!

(Oh by the way, a zillion calls to "getc" are faster than a zillion
1-byte calls to "read", and the same for half-a-zillion calls to "putc"
although you'll have to move your (ch==' ')?0:xxxx test around in front
of the "putc.  But this doesn't make it tighter.)

-- 
Norman Diamond, Sony Corp. (diamond%ws.sony.junet@uunet.uu.net seems to work)
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