optimization

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i spent the last 20 or so minutes writing a program to remove all the spaces from a string, and it works perfectly but i feel like the code could be cleaner/neater. anyone have advice for optimizing it? any constructive criticism is welcome :) thanks!

code:

#include<iostream>
#include<cstring>
using std::cout;
using std::endl;
using std::cin;
char* removeSpace(char* string, int length, char* spaceless, int& spaceCounter);

int main(void)
{
	char string[10] = "a b c d e";
	int length = sizeof(string)/sizeof(string[0]);
	char* spaceless = new char[length];
	int spaceCounter = 0;
	spaceless = removeSpace(string, length, spaceless, spaceCounter);

	for (int i = 0; i < spaceCounter; i++)
		cout << spaceless[i];

	cout << endl;
	delete[] spaceless;
	spaceless = 0;
	return 0;
}

char* removeSpace(char* string, int length, char* spaceless, int& spaceCounter)
{
	for (int i = 0; i < length; i++)
	{
		if (string[i] == ' ')
			continue;
		else
		{
			spaceless[spaceCounter] = string[i];
			spaceCounter++;
		}
	}
	return spaceless;
}