Formatting strings in C

[hopesfall]

I'm trying to write a short program that takes the input from a user and trims any leading/trailing white space, and then checks how many words are in the string. Problem is, I'm only allowed to use stdio.h and stdlib.h. How can I accomplish this? Also, how would I check if any of the characters which were entered aren't either a number, letter, or '-'?


Thanks

[Smac89]

if (myword[0] == ' ') Could be used to check space

if (myword[0] == '-') Could be used to check dash

if (myword[0] > 9) Could be used to check for letter

if (myword[0] <= 9) Could be used to check numbers

[hopesfall]

Would it be reasonable to check an element like this then:

if( (myword[0] == ' ') || (myword[0] == '-') || (myword[0] <= 9) || (myword[0] > 9)){

// do stuff

}

[Veltas]

Can I just say that checking if the integer value of a character is larger than 9 won't tell you if it's a letter.

If you want to know what's whitespace, letters, numbers, etc., look it up:

http://www.asciitable.com/