fixes zlib compression, infi file parser updates

2 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/auxiliary/functions.cc b/src/auxiliary/functions.cc
index e9861ac..5edff56 100644
--- a/src/auxiliary/functions.cc
+++ b/src/auxiliary/functions.cc
@@ -122,4 +122,14 @@ const std::string lowercase(const std::string &text)
 	return t;
 }
 
+void trim(std::string &text)
+{
+	while (text.size() && text[0] == ' ') {
+		text.erase(0, 1);
+	}
+	while (text.size() && text[text.size()-1] == ' ') {
+		text.erase(text.size()-1, 1);
+	}
+}
+
 }
diff --git a/src/auxiliary/functions.h b/src/auxiliary/functions.h
index 90eb2ed..ceab0de 100644
--- a/src/auxiliary/functions.h
+++ b/src/auxiliary/functions.h
@@ -49,6 +49,9 @@ const std::string text_strip(const std::string &text);
 /// return text, stripped of color codes and converted to lowercase
 const std::string text_strip_lowercase(const std::string &text);
 
+/// trim leading ad trailing spaces from a string
+void trim(std::string &text);
+
 }
 
 #endif // __INCLUDED_AUX_FUNCTIONS_H__