(xfields) [without -t]: Ignore leading blanks.

From David Dyck	(dcd@tc.fluke.COM).

diff --git a/src/join.c b/src/join.c
index 16446eb583119bcf4f82210a022812249873b17b..4c9c71b39111e0871085f8c2f63c2407a6e60500 100644 (file)
--- a/src/join.c
+++ b/src/join.c
@@ -246,6 +246,13 @@ xfields (struct line *line)
   ptr = line->beg;
   lim = line->lim;
 
+  if (!tab)
+    {
+      /* Skip leading blanks before the first field.  */
+      while (ptr < lim && ISSPACE (*ptr))
+       ++ptr;
+    }
+
   for (i = 0; ptr < lim; ++i)
     {
       if (tab)