From 3c0364f3911ec9f43e1c8c96ec2c8e30b1b52c47 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 22:49:01 +0000
Subject: Patch from Larry Doolittle to eliminate needless thrashing about when
 trimming long strings with lots of trailing white space.

---
 libbb/trim.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/libbb/trim.c b/libbb/trim.c
index be97d4924..78cf235dd 100644
--- a/libbb/trim.c
+++ b/libbb/trim.c
@@ -33,11 +33,11 @@
 
 void trim(char *s)
 {
-	int len;
+	int len=strlen(s);
 
 	/* trim trailing whitespace */
-	while ( (len=strlen(s)) >= 1 && isspace(s[len-1]))
-		s[len-1]='\0';
+	while ( len > 0 && isspace(s[len-1]))
+		s[--len]='\0';
 
 	/* trim leading whitespace */
 	memmove(s, &s[strspn(s, " \n\r\t\v")], len);
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