function that we wrote in class last week to remove the trailing new line character from the filename(which is found by isspace)

remove_trailing_space.c

/* Hi all - I am currently a student. The code below was developed during student projects. It may not be the most efficient or robust.
Use it if it's helpful for you. 
-Bill Moriarty
*/

/* written by J. Fiore for 2107 class* /
/*
For the "C" locale, white-space characters are any of:
' '	(0x20)	space (SPC)
'\t'	(0x09)	horizontal tab (TAB)
'\n'	(0x0a)	newline (LF)
'\v'	(0x0b)	vertical tab (VT)
'\f'	(0x0c)	feed (FF)
'\r'	(0x0d)	carriage return (CR)
http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/cctype/isspace/
*/

void remove_trailing_space(char s[]) {
  int len=strlen(s);
  int i;

  i=len-1;
  while (i>=0 && isspace(s[i])) {
    s[i]='\0';
    i--;
  }
} /* end void remove_trailing_space(char s[]) */