我想如果你开始询问修剪字符串的“最佳方式”，我会说一个好的实现将是:

不分配临时字符串 有过载的地方修剪和复制修剪 可以很容易地定制接受不同的验证序列/逻辑

显然，有太多不同的方法来解决这个问题，这绝对取决于你真正需要什么。然而，C标准库在<string.h>中仍然有一些非常有用的函数，比如memchr。C仍然被认为是IO的最佳语言是有原因的——它的标准库是纯粹的效率。

inline const char* trim_start(const char* str)
{
    while (memchr(" \t\n\r", *str, 4))  ++str;
    return str;
}
inline const char* trim_end(const char* end)
{
    while (memchr(" \t\n\r", end[-1], 4)) --end;
    return end;
}
inline std::string trim(const char* buffer, int len) // trim a buffer (input?)
{
    return std::string(trim_start(buffer), trim_end(buffer + len));
}
inline void trim_inplace(std::string& str)
{
    str.assign(trim_start(str.c_str()),
        trim_end(str.c_str() + str.length()));
}

int main()
{
    char str [] = "\t \nhello\r \t \n";

    string trimmed = trim(str, strlen(str));
    cout << "'" << trimmed << "'" << endl;

    system("pause");
    return 0;
}

使用下面的代码对std::strings (ideone)中的空格和制表符进行右对齐:

// trim trailing spaces
size_t endpos = str.find_last_not_of(" \t");
size_t startpos = str.find_first_not_of(" \t");
if( std::string::npos != endpos )
{
    str = str.substr( 0, endpos+1 );
    str = str.substr( startpos );
}
else {
    str.erase(std::remove(std::begin(str), std::end(str), ' '), std::end(str));
}

为了平衡，我将包括左边的代码(ideone):

// trim leading spaces
size_t startpos = str.find_first_not_of(" \t");
if( string::npos != startpos )
{
    str = str.substr( startpos );
}

我认为在这个例子中使用宏是一个很好的实践:(适用于c++ 98)

#define TRIM_CHARACTERS " \t\n\r\f\v"
#define TRIM_STRING(given) \
    given.erase(given.find_last_not_of(TRIM_CHARACTERS) + 1); \
    given.erase(0, given.find_first_not_of(TRIM_CHARACTERS));

例子:

#include <iostream>
#include <string>

#define TRIM_CHARACTERS " \t\n\r\f\v"
#define TRIM_STRING(given) \
    given.erase(given.find_last_not_of(TRIM_CHARACTERS) + 1); \
    given.erase(0, given.find_first_not_of(TRIM_CHARACTERS));

int main(void) {
  std::string text("  hello world!! \t  \r");
  TRIM_STRING(text);
  std::cout << text; // "hello world!!"
}

For what it's worth, here is a trim implementation with an eye towards performance. It's much quicker than many other trim routines I've seen around. Instead of using iterators and std::finds, it uses raw c strings and indices. It optimizes the following special cases: size 0 string (do nothing), string with no whitespace to trim (do nothing), string with only trailing whitespace to trim (just resize the string), string that's entirely whitespace (just clear the string). And finally, in the worst case (string with leading whitespace), it does its best to perform an efficient copy construction, performing only 1 copy and then moving that copy in place of the original string.

void TrimString(std::string & str)
{ 
    if(str.empty())
        return;

    const auto pStr = str.c_str();

    size_t front = 0;
    while(front < str.length() && std::isspace(int(pStr[front]))) {++front;}

    size_t back = str.length();
    while(back > front && std::isspace(int(pStr[back-1]))) {--back;}

    if(0 == front)
    {
        if(back < str.length())
        {
            str.resize(back - front);
        }
    }
    else if(back <= front)
    {
        str.clear();
    }
    else
    {
        str = std::move(std::string(str.begin()+front, str.begin()+back));
    }
}

好吧，这可能不是最快的，但是。简单。

str = "   aaa    ";
int len = str.length();
// rtrim
while(str[len-1] == ' ') { str.erase(--len,1); }
// ltrim
while(str[0] == ' ') { str.erase(0,1); }

使用Boost的字符串算法是最简单的:

#include <boost/algorithm/string.hpp>

std::string str("hello world! ");
boost::trim_right(str);

STR现在是"hello world!"。还有trim_left和trim，它们修剪两边。

如果你给上面的函数名加上_copy后缀，例如trim_copy，函数将返回一个经过修剪的字符串副本，而不是通过引用修改它。

如果你给上面的任何函数名加上_if后缀，例如trim_copy_if，你可以修剪所有满足自定义谓词的字符，而不是只有空白。