From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 00:58:12 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (xfields) [without -t]: Ignore leading blanks.
X-Git-Tag: FILEUTILS-3_12j~72
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=756fe67e6043488110c6a8592adfbe0a80d5bbfb;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

(xfields) [without -t]: Ignore leading blanks.
From David Dyck	(dcd@tc.fluke.COM).
---

diff --git a/src/join.c b/src/join.c
index 16446eb583..4c9c71b391 100644
--- 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)