将输入的空格串替换为最少数量的制表符和空格。

#include <stdio.h>

#define MAXLINE 1000 /* max input line size */
#define TAB2SPACE 4 /* 4 spaces to a tab */

char line[MAXLINE]; /*current input line*/

int getline(void);  /* taken from the KnR book. */


int
main()
{
    int i, t;
    int spacecount, len;

    while ((len = getline()) > 0)
    {
        spacecount = 0;
        for (i = 0; i < len; i++)
        {
            if (line[i] == ' ')
                spacecount++; /* increment counter for each space */
            if (line[i] != ' ')
                spacecount = 0; /* reset counter */
            if (spacecount == TAB2SPACE) /* Now we have enough spaces
                                         ** to replace them with a tab
                                         */
            {
                /* Because we are removing 4 spaces and
                ** replacing them with 1 tab we move back
                ** three chars and replace the ' ' with a \t
                */
                i -= 3; /* same as "i = i - 3" */
                len -= 3;
                line[i] = '\t';
                /* Now move all the char's to the right into the
                ** places we have removed.
                */
                for (t = i + 1; t<len; t++)
                    line[t] = line[t + 3];
                /* Now set the counter back to zero and move the
                ** end of line back 3 spaces
                */
                spacecount = 0;
                line[len] = '\0';
            }
        }
        printf("%s", line);
    }
    return 0;
}



/* getline: specialized version */
int getline(void)
{
    int c, i;
    extern char line[];

    for (i = 0; i<MAXLINE - 1 && (c = getchar()) != EOF && c != '\n'; ++i)
        line[i] = c;
    if (c == '\n')
    {
        line[i] = c;
        ++i;
    }
    line[i] = '\0';
    return i;

}