From 75b3606424a27dafeb0958450bffa841ae463c2d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: fluxgen <fluxgen>
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 14:01:48 +0000
Subject: added removeFirstWhitespace

---
 src/FbTk/StringUtil.cc | 9 ++++++++-
 src/FbTk/StringUtil.hh | 6 +++++-
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/FbTk/StringUtil.cc b/src/FbTk/StringUtil.cc
index e1af2c2..934561f 100644
--- a/src/FbTk/StringUtil.cc
+++ b/src/FbTk/StringUtil.cc
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 // FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER
 // DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
 
-// $Id: StringUtil.cc,v 1.6 2003/08/22 22:11:19 fluxgen Exp $
+// $Id: StringUtil.cc,v 1.7 2003/09/29 14:01:48 fluxgen Exp $
 
 #include "StringUtil.hh"
 
@@ -178,6 +178,13 @@ std::string basename(const std::string &filename) {
     return filename;
 }
 
+string::size_type removeFirstWhitespace(std::string &str) {
+    string::size_type first_pos = str.find_first_not_of(" \t");
+    if (first_pos != string::npos)
+        str.erase(0, first_pos);
+    return first_pos;
+}
+
 }; // end namespace StringUtil
 
 }; // end namespace FbTk
diff --git a/src/FbTk/StringUtil.hh b/src/FbTk/StringUtil.hh
index 621f0fb..6f3b56a 100644
--- a/src/FbTk/StringUtil.hh
+++ b/src/FbTk/StringUtil.hh
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 // FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER
 // DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
 
-//$Id: StringUtil.hh,v 1.5 2003/08/22 22:11:19 fluxgen Exp $
+//$Id: StringUtil.hh,v 1.6 2003/09/29 14:01:48 fluxgen Exp $
 
 #ifndef FBTK_STRINGUTIL_HH
 #define FBTK_STRINGUTIL_HH
@@ -54,6 +54,10 @@ std::string toUpper(const std::string &conv);
 #endif // basename
 std::string basename(const std::string &basename);
 
+
+/// removes the first whitespace characters of the string
+std::string::size_type removeFirstWhitespace(std::string &str);
+
 /// Breaks a string into tokens
 template <typename Container>
 static void
-- 
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