// numNonblanks(s) returns the number of nonblank // characters in null-terminated string s. int numNonblanks(const char* s) { int count = 0; for(int i = 0; s[i] != '\0'; i++) { if(s[i] != ' ') { count++; } } return count; } // removeBlanks(s) returns a string (allocated using new) // that holds all of the non-blank characters in s. char* removeBlanks(const char* s) { int n = numNonblanks(s); char* t = new char[n + 1]; int j = 0; for(int i = 0; s[i] != '\0'; i++) { if(s[i] != ' ') { t[j] = s[i]; j++; } } t[j] = '\0'; return t; }