Function newStringFromList

Trash/stringTable.c:94–120

}

char *
newStringFromList(
    char **list,
   INTN* size
)
{
    char *begin = *list, *end;
    char *newstr;
   INTN newsize = *size;
    
    while (*begin && newsize && isspace(*begin)) {
	begin++;
	newsize--;
    }
    end = begin;
    while (*end && newsize && !isspace(*end)) {
	end++;
	newsize--;
    }
    if (begin == end)
	return 0;
    newstr = malloc(end - begin + 1);
    strncpy(newstr, begin, end - begin);
    *list = end;
    *size = newsize;
    return newstr;
}

/* 
 * compress == compress escaped characters to one character