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From: andre@targon.UUCP (andre)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Test of possible ACSGATE on net
Message-ID: <647@targon.UUCP>
Date: 18 Oct 89 14:49:26 GMT
References: <16103@nswitgould.cs.uts.oz>
Reply-To: andre@targon.UUCP (andre)
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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))
>    ;
>}

I'm going to be flamed for this but...

main(c)
{
  while(read(0,&c,1)>0&&(c-' '?write(1,&c,1):1))
    ;
}

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