C program to trim both leading and trailing white spaces in a string

Write a C program to trim both leading and trailing white space characters in a string using loop. How to remove both leading and trailing white space characters in a string using loop in C programming. Program to delete all leading and trailing white space characters from a given string in C.

Example:
Input string: "     Lots of leading and trailing spaces.     "
Output string: "Lots of leading and trailing spaces."

Required knowledge

Basic C programming, Loop, String, Function

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Program to trim leading and trailing white spaces

/**
 * C program to trim both leading and trailing white space characters from a string
 */

#include <stdio.h>
#define MAX_SIZE 100 //Maximum size of the string


/* Function declaration */
void trimT(char * string);



int main()
{
    char string[MAX_SIZE];

    /* Reads string from user */
    printf("Enter any string: ");
    gets(string);

    printf("String before trimming whitespace: \"%s\"\n", string);

    trim(string);

    printf("String after trimming whitespace: \"%s\"\n", string);

    return 0;
}




/**
 * Remove leading and trailing whitespace characters from a string
 */
void trim(char * string)
{
    int lastIndex, lastSpaceIndex, i, j;

    /*
     * Trims leading white spaces
     */
    lastSpaceIndex = 0;

    /* Finds the last index of whitespace character */
    while(string[lastSpaceIndex] == ' ' || string[lastSpaceIndex] == '\t' || string[lastSpaceIndex] == '\n')
    {
        lastSpaceIndex++;
    }


    /* Shits all trailing characters to its left */
    i = 0;
    while(string[i + lastSpaceIndex] != '\0')
    {
        string[i] = string[i + lastSpaceIndex];
        i++;
    }
    string[i] = '\0'; //Make sure that string is NULL terminated



    /*
     * Trims trailing white spaces
     */

    /* Finds the last non white space character */
    i = 0;
    while(string[i] != '\0')
    {
        if(string[i] != ' ' && string[i] != '\t' && string[i] != '\n')
        {
            lastIndex = i;
        }

        i++;
    }

    /* Mark the next character to last non white space character as NULL */
    string[lastIndex + 1] = '\0';
}

Happy coding ;)