Question

I have been asked to write a function that returns the first non-whitespace character in an inputted string.

It’s working when I enter something like “hello” or anything that does not begin with a white space. But when I enter something like ” hello”, it returns a white space.

Here is my code:

int question6()
{
    printf("Start typing stuff in \n");
    char myChar = returnFirstNonWhite();

    printf("First non-white space character is: %c",myChar);
}

int returnFirstNonWhite()
{
    int ch,temp;
    ch = getchar();
    while (ch != 32)
    {
        temp = ch;
        printf("Found first success %c\n", ch);
    }
    return temp;
}

Answer 1

ch = getchar();
while (ch == 32)
{
    ch = getchar();
}
return ch;