Question

How this program works to remove the white-space?:

int main()
{
    char s[]="remove   white     space";
    int i;
    for(i=0;s[i];++i)
            if(s[i]==' ')
                    s[i]='\a';
    printf("%s",s);
    return 0;
}

See output here

Output:

removewhitespace

Answer 1

It’s not removing the whitespace, it’s just replacing it with the bell character, which isn’t printed by most terminals (instead, they usually produce a fastidious beep).

Although invisible on a terminal, those characters are obviously written on the standard output, so if you redirect to file the output of your program they will be written to disk, and can be displayed with most editors.