<refentry id="refshave">

      <refmeta>
	<refentrytitle>ne_shave</refentrytitle>
	<manvolnum>3</manvolnum>
      </refmeta>

      <refnamediv>
	<refname>ne_shave</refname>
	<refpurpose>trim whitespace from a string</refpurpose>
      </refnamediv>
      
      <refsynopsisdiv>
	
	<funcsynopsis>

	  <funcsynopsisinfo>#include &lt;ne_string.h&gt;</funcsynopsisinfo>

	  <funcprototype>
	    <funcdef>char *<function>ne_shave</function></funcdef>
	    <paramdef>char *<parameter>str</parameter></paramdef>
	    <paramdef>const char *<parameter>whitespace</parameter></paramdef>
	  </funcprototype>

	</funcsynopsis>
	
      </refsynopsisdiv>

      <refsect1>
	<title>Description</title>

	<para><function>ne_shave</function> returns a portion of
<parameter>str</parameter> with any leading or trailing characters in
the <parameter>whitespace</parameter> array removed.
<parameter>str</parameter> may be modified.  Note that the return
value may not be equal to <parameter>str</parameter>.</para>

      </refsect1>

      <refsect1>
	<title>Examples</title>

	<para>The following code segment will output
	<literal>"fish"</literal>:</para>
	
	<programlisting>char s[] = ".!.fish!.!";
puts(ne_shave(s, ".!"));</programlisting>

      </refsect1>

    </refentry>